TIPS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY
March 13, 2005
"Good Morning America" talked to the national memory champion, Ram Kolli, a graduate student in computer science at Virginia Tech. Kolli was crowned Saturday in New York after a series of grueling challenges such as remembering the placement of a shuffled deck of cards, a list of 500 words and the names and faces of 99 strangers. Here are some tips on how the average person can improve their memory:
• Connect what you want to remember to a strong emotion through a story, song or activity.
• Personalize what you want to remember by using your friends' names or things you can relate to from your home and neighborhood.
• Use memory chunking -- don't try to remember more than seven things at a time in any category.
And if you'd like to test your memory online, you can visit the following Web sites:
• www.queendom.com/mindgames/
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/easysurf/menu.htm
• http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chmemory.html
"Good Morning America" talked to the national memory champion, Ram Kolli, a graduate student in computer science at Virginia Tech. Kolli was crowned Saturday in New York after a series of grueling challenges such as remembering the placement of a shuffled deck of cards, a list of 500 words and the names and faces of 99 strangers. Here are some tips on how the average person can improve their memory:
• Connect what you want to remember to a strong emotion through a story, song or activity.
• Personalize what you want to remember by using your friends' names or things you can relate to from your home and neighborhood.
• Use memory chunking -- don't try to remember more than seven things at a time in any category.
And if you'd like to test your memory online, you can visit the following Web sites:
• www.queendom.com/mindgames/
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/easysurf/menu.htm
• http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chmemory.html
