Says Dr. Norman Doydzh, during the life of the brain can change its structure and create new neurons. Previously, it was believed that adult brains only weakens over time. But to maintain the shape required exercises and brain needs them as well as the muscles of the body. Mental exercises designed specifically for stimulating the brain, and in particular memory. Exercises to help improve visual memory, and calculating in his mind often include games to improve memory.

Games partition information

Memory can be divided into sensory, short-term and long-term. Sensory memory allows a person to hold information in memory of the senses in a very short time duration of 200-500 ms. Short-term memory - the ability to hold information in memory for a very short time. It is limited not only on time but also on the number of objects - they may be no more than seven concurrently (plus or minus two). The capacity of short-term memory can be increased by using a technique of separation of objects into parts. For example, to memorize long number, it must be divided into pieces by three digits. British youramazingbrain.org site offers a good game for memory training. There is information about the specific strategies that can improve memory. Try playing the game "to remember the number? "Which will allow to memorize phone numbers, dividing them into groups of digits.

Short-term memory

Great game "Flashing memory." This is a variation of the classic game "Memory", in which the players turn over cards and try to find them a couple. Make a mistake, the player turns over two cards and the game continues. Trying to remember the location of cards, developing short-term memory. The game "Neyrosvet" experiencing spatial short-term memory of man. In this game, it is necessary to memorize a sequence in which the objects are illuminated, and reproduce it sequentially. Different levels of the game designed for the development of both children and adults. The game can be found on the website improvememory.org.

Working memory

The ability to hold information in mind while performing other actions, very important for activities such as learning and reasoning. Active pursuit and manipulation of information requires the retention of information in short-term memory. Tricky Sequence Question - is a game that involves working memory. The player will show the seven figures, which represent a certain sequence of objects. One of the figures do not correspond to this sequence and it must be found and eliminated. This game is quite complicated.

Long-term memory

Non-volatile memory can store a large amount of information, but often associated with difficulty in order to gain access to this data. The storage of information for a long time can help the game "way of remembering." Using a special technique, you can easily learn how to memorize a set of objects.

Good memory - one of the most essential things in our busy and crowded world of information. Many of us have to make task lists and upcoming events at the beginning of each day, but from time to time we have something to forget. A good memory will reduce the number of unmade Affairs. According to some studies it is known that there are specific techniques that significantly improve memory.

All techniques for improving memory can be collected in one place and rank in order of importance:

• Method of loci

Using this method, the player makes the list of objects that need to remember, and fancies himself in a familiar place. Then he has objects or reminders of them in different parts of this place. To retrieve the memories of these facilities should be easy to imagine the path paved by these places, and memories themselves emerge in the memory.

• Confidence

It should focus and concentrate in memory or information storage. Also, the belief in their own success enhances the ability to retrieve memories from the subconscious and helps to focus longer on the task.

• Motivation

To store should increasingly turn to the subject of remembering him to develop his interest as an interest - a powerful motivator for learning and memory, and lack of interest in learning makes heavy brainwork.

• The study material

To store the material under study, would be a more effective way to underscore or not compilation of footnotes in the fields, and the method of drawing up their records, their own tables, charts and graphs. Assimilating the basic ideas and principles can be difficult to remember even his own material based on constructed graphs, tables and charts.

• Breakdown of the

Big task should be divided into smaller elements. According to psychological studies, particularly good at people remember the material at the beginning or end of the list or the lesson, and when large amounts of data broken into smaller pieces, the output is more "started" and "ends", which facilitates the storage.

• Environment

New should know, ideally, in broad daylight, and preferably in silence. Designated for the process memory space, silence and light a positive effect on memory.

• Finding links

Linking facts and ideas already acquired knowledge, you can strengthen your memory. Especially useful link traceable by analogy with personal experience.

• The overall picture

With the assimilation of facts and details should be established in the overall picture of the head of the studied, which will then be removed from the associative memory of the necessary information.

• Action

When memorizing information is very helpful to pronounce the material aloud, or imagine themselves to lecture or explain the material to third parties.

• Proper organization of time

The process of learning and remembering to go in series with the time available for leisure. If the brain does not allow to relax, excessive force, and undue stress just remember the material will allow the extremely short period of time, but a tired brain can refuse "to issue" the data in the allotted time. The alternation of mental activity of sleep Dreams: how to understand our dreams   allow evenly distribute the load and get a welcome effect.