How to Improve your Memory for Study, 1st edition
Title overview
This book will show you how to use memory to revolutionise the way you study. It combines the latest research about how the memory works with practical strategies for putting it to use in every aspect of study.
How To Improve Your Memory explores everything we know about the thinking and learning skills required to succeed. It’s about developing a smart and efficient approach, using the brain at its best, and taking the stress and strain out of study in all its forms.
This text is designed to interest, reassure, inspire, train – and, ultimately, to make studying in all its forms more enjoyable and more successful.
· The book is supported by a range of online resources, including: diagnostic tests; interactive games and challenges and personal progress checks. These help you to personalise your approach and connect the material to the study demands of people every day, all around the world.
· Delivers regular ‘wins’: short, powerful insights into memory and practical techniques that you can put to immediate use
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
How to use this book
Your study brain
1 What is memory?
2 How memories are made
3 Switch on your memory
4 The right frame of mind
Where study starts
5 Warming up
6 Strategies for success
Learn to remember
7 Making memories
8 Telling stories
9 Memory journeys
Take it all in
10 Re-learning to read
11 Listen and learn
Right shape, right space
12 Getting physical
13 Memory zones
Total recall
14 Student survival
15 Memory for exams
Further reading
Author bios
Jonathan Hancock is a graduate of Oxford University, a double world record breaker and former World Memory Champion, and the author of nine books on memory and learning. His tenth has just been published as part of Hodder’s popular Teach Yourself series. He has demonstrated his learning techniques on numerous radio and TV programmes, run memory training courses in business and education, and now works as a teacher in a busy city school. In 2008 he joined forces with The Learning Skills Foundation to become Founder of The Junior Memory Championship, the first national memory competition for primary-school children. He is preparing to launch The Senior Memory Championship.
Foreword by Professor Alan Baddeley. With degrees from the Universities of London, Princeton and Cambridge, he is a world authority on human memory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Advisor to The Learning Skills Foundation. Alan Baddeley has a number of honorary degrees, and was awarded the CBE for his contribution to the study of memory.