Want to improve your memory?
Posted by: Pastor Dave Lee | Wednesday April 23, 2008
File under: Pages & Passages
I read an interesting article in Wired magazine this morning about how to boost your memory and brain power. They talked about a Polish guy named Piotr Wozniak who developed a software called SuperMemo that helps you remember things like vocabulary for a foreign language you’re trying to learn, or any other large body of information you want to commit to long-term memory.
His work has its roots in some research done by a German named Hermann Ebbinghaus who realized that the brain forgets things on a predictable arc over time. If you can practice recalling information at just the right time, you can remember it longer.
According to Wozniak, timing is everything. Try to review teh material too soon and it's pointless. Try to review it too late and you've already forgotten and are simply relearning it. But review it at just the time you're about to forget it and you'll reinforce recall over the long-term.
You can find a collection of interesting articles on improving memory on the SuperMemo web site. Now if I could just remember what I was working on when I thought of this blog post...
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