{"id":4668,"date":"2022-12-14T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2022-12-14T07:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:16:11","slug":"finish-the-year-with-some-memory-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2022\/12\/14\/finish-the-year-with-some-memory-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Finish the year with some memory tips?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Find the content from your study year already receding? Learn a few memory tools from neuroscientist Lisa Genova. Watch time 10 minutes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Big Think<\/a> is a website\/YouTube channel<\/a> that I’ve started consuming a little more these days. I find they have interesting people featured who try to break down difficult concepts into everyday language. Not all, but some of their content is mental health\/psychological health focused which obviously interests me.<\/p>\n

At this time of the year, you might be busily trying to forget everything you learned in 2022, so a post on memory tips is probably badly timed. Regardless, in the interest of trying to share more of the content that I consume, I thought I’d share this 10-minute video of Lisa Genova (neuroscientist) explaining ways to enhance your memory.<\/p>\n

As a bit of a heads-up for what she’ll cover:<\/p>\n

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  1. Pay attention – the better attention you pay to something you are doing, the more likely it will be remembered<\/li>\n
  2. Lower stress levels – cortisol and adrenaline, in too high doses, or over long periods of time impair memory – build activities into your day that lower stress levels like yoga, meditation, exercise, slow breathing<\/li>\n
  3. Focus on getting good sleep – sleep is when our brains consolidate the lessons from the day, so engage in good sleep hygiene<\/a> to improve your slumber<\/li>\n
  4. Use caffeine sensibly – in the right doses at the right times, caffeine will increase attention hence improve memory<\/li>\n
  5. Create associations – new memories stick better if attached to existing ones, so look for ways to connect new information you are learning to stuff you already know<\/li>\n
  6. Repetition, repetition, repetition<\/li>\n
  7. Write stuff down – it isn’t cheating to use lists to enhance your memory – the process of writing helps you focus on the thing you are trying to remember<\/li>\n
  8. Test yourself – memory isn’t just putting stuff IN our heads, it is getting it OUT of our heads – practice recalling important content on a regular basis (this is a central study technique<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  9. Use Google – especially when the answer is on the tip of your tongue but you can’t quite nab it – support retrieval of information with Google and then utilise techniques above to store that memory more effectively<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n