Brain Imaging at Washington University in St. Louis identified Memorization Strategies you’d likely enjoy. Resaerchers asked the question… Why are memory skills better for some people than for others? They observed the brain to see learning strategies that healthy young adults use to remember a series of objects. Then… though functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers 
identified brain areas specifically correlated with different strategies the subjects used.
In the study, researchers discovered that participants used two main strategies to learn new information.
They found that visual and verbal strategies improved memory. The visual inspection strategy showed participants carefully study the visual appearance of objects. They were using their spatial intelligence to help them understand and remember. In the verbal elaboration … or language-based strategy — participants created sentences about the objects as a way to remember them. Here they were drawing from their linguistic intelligence.
Would these two intelligences and these two strategies improve what you remember to help you at work?
As Brenda Kirchhoff concluded in her study the test subjects that used the verbal and the visual method were superior to the other methods. Maybe in the future these studies may help provide behavioral modification treatments for individuals with memory impairment, including adults afflicted with age-related memory loss and early onset Alzheimer's disease
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