| Thanks to the internet world there are actually | | | | find where it was that you last saw the same card. |
| thousands of tools and tests available to test and | | | | Everytime you get 2 pictures upturned; you remove |
| improve your memory. There are ways you can do | | | | those cards from the stack or leave them face up, |
| this without the utilization of the web and you can | | | | and go on. Setting yourself a limit as to how long it |
| make them fun at the same time. I'm not sure if this | | | | should take, you race the clock to get as close as you |
| was a game you played when you were younger, | | | | can. If you master this, try adding more pictures. |
| except for me and my sister, when we were in the | | | | By playing these kind of games, you are effectively |
| back of the automobile heading away on a long drive, | | | | teaching your brain the easiest way to remember |
| we used to call out the names of automobiles that | | | | things through organisation, and you are teaching it to |
| went passed in the opposite direction. Over time we | | | | do it swiftly. After a sequence of repetitious games, |
| had manifestly learnt to associate certain traits of | | | | your brain will be recalling things more naturally, and |
| each vehicle, with the varied makes and models, and | | | | recalling faster than before. This is a way to test and |
| more frequently than not, we managed to properly | | | | improve your memory. |
| name the autos that we saw. | | | | As an example of this, I just performed an internet test |
| The techniques of organisation that we used with this | | | | using this game as a tool. My first attempt with 36 |
| are the same as the techniques used to remember | | | | pictures, took nine minutes. By attempt four I was |
| names and faces, and other stuff that we experience | | | | down to two minutes and if I had sat there doing it |
| in our lives. Then there are the games we used to play | | | | over and over, I'm sure I might get it down even |
| like Concentration and actually this is one of the tools | | | | further. The baseline for the game was set at one |
| openly available on the internet, to test how fast you | | | | minute 30 seconds. |
| can select pairs of concealed pictures from a panel of | | | | There are plenty of ways that you can develop your |
| many. There might be fifty or sixty or more pictures | | | | own technique to test and improve your memory. |
| concealed face down, and there's 2 of each image. | | | | Recalling song words is one way, spelling words is |
| The idea is to flip one image over, and then another to | | | | another, flip cards is another. Read a page of a book, |
| determine if there's a match. If not, you would | | | | and repeat it a number of times, and see what |
| remember what those pictures were and in what | | | | proportion of it you remember when your brain is |
| location they are, flip them back over face down, and | | | | asked to, without the book being open. All these |
| then flip over another card to bare the image. If the | | | | systems assist in teaching your brain the simplest way |
| image is one you have recently flipped over, your mind | | | | to recall pictures in your memory, and the way to do it |
| will recall it instantly, and then your memory is asked to | | | | swiftly. |