Meanings for Memory – Have you been Paying Attention?

Meanings for Memory – Have you been Paying Attention?

There is a common myth that we absorb everything around us, like a GoPro always recording. Then when we forget things, it is because we lost the file. But that is only part of the story. Where it comes apart is that we don’t actually absorb everything. For us to commit something to memory, we need to pay attention to it.

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Meanings for Memory – Visualisation: Seeing is…remembering.
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Meanings for Memory – Visualisation: Seeing is…remembering.

Studies show that visual material is remembered differently to verbal material . They show that verbal memory is primarily dealt with in the left part of the brain while imagery is primarily processed in the right side. Many studies have found that visual imagery can improve your memory…even for memory of verbal material. Images are more memorable than words.

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