High school students have to memorize a lot of information. What memory strategies are most effective?
High school students have to memorize a lot of information. What memory strategies are most effective?
There are lots of things we want our kids to remember, but there’s no “one size fits all” trick for memory. Here are some tools for parents to help them find the strategies that work best.
Research shows that, regardless of age, people have a greater number of memories between the ages of 10 and 30 than at any other time in their lives.
Psychologists interview Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, author of Eyewitness Testimony, about the reliability of memory.
As adults, when we look back to our childhood, there is typically no memory of early events. Psychologists have termed this “childhood amnesia”.
Researchers at the University of South Florida recently published a study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease indicating that caffeine may be effective in reversing the memory impairments that are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. While these research results are exciting, further study is necessary given that the results were observed in mice and not [...]
Parents may have a notion that pregnancy and motherhood makes women more forgetful, but the research doesn’t support that conclusion. Professor Helen Christensen, director of the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University, began studying a group of women in 1999. She soon found that there was no link between pregnancy and [...]
Doctors Brian and Giuseppe talk about recent stories posted on familyanatomy.com, including:
the importance of eye contact
parents’ gestures and children’s vocabulary development
city vs. country life impact on memory and attention
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Psychologists Marc G. Berman, John Jonides, and Stephen Kaplan from the University of Michigan have conducted a study looking at how being in country or city environments affect memory and attention. The results confirmed that being in nature led to better results on tests of memory and attention, than being in the city. The authors [...]
A startling 90% of people drink coffee on a daily basis. A large number of these people use caffeine to help them be alert and focused as they start the day. However, a recent study at the University of California, San Diego led by Sara Mednick suggests that while coffee does help you concentrate and [...]
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