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Neil

My name is Neil Rob

What's happened to your memory

Too many things on my mind is affecting my short-term memory

But what I can remember is that in this program with talking about improving our memory

We all and I think you might find it quite useful

Storing information is an important

Function of our brains and scientists are always looking at ways to improve it

But also to stop at deteriorating

Becoming worse

Samuel know that memories

That's the noun

The things we remember from the past

A nice to have

But also important for remembering who people are where things are kept

And how things look

Soon we'll be discussing a new idea for improving your memory but not before I've set today's Quest

There are many ways we can improve our memory but one way

History the type of food weed

According to the BBC food website

Food supports good memory foam

Is it a eggs

The spinach or see bananas

Well as a kid I was always told it

Spinach was good for me Popeye ate it to make him strong

So I'll say be

Well I'll have the onset later on

Now let's talk more about improving on memory

Memory is the ability to encode store and retrieve information

The number of factors can affect

People's memory processes

Sitting health

Anxiety mood stress and tired

That's why I forgot ample if you're taking an exam it's important to get

A good night sleep

And to keep healthy

Pineal when you revise infant exam what helps you to remember fax I-10 to write things down

Again and again and again

Well that's one way but people have different styles to help him remember

According to the BBC's I-12 guide

The three different styles

Visual auditory

And kinesthetic

That's learning-by-doing and practicing something over and over again

That sounds like me

But recently a new study has come up with a method that could possibly be the best way to improve your memory

And that's my drawing

Download, who's professor of psychology at the University of Leeds has been speaking about it on the BBC Radio 4

Full program

All in the mind

See if you can work out why

The authors certainly argue that one of the things that happens if I drawing

These particular objects

Atlee Street

Increased

Contextual

Representation

The object in one's mind

It makes a lot of

And should have sent the idea that if you have

Encoded something in a greater level of detail

It's like you're more likely to remember

It's much stronger than just remembering

Writing dying the word

Okay so let's

Try to explain that

Drawing something leads to increased contextual representation of the of

But something is cut

Contextual

It is in the situation where that usually exist

So as you draw something you're creating a picture in your mind about what it is

Have you used it

Where it's used

I wonder if this means

Tycoon

Maybe Daryl O'Connor says that when you draw you are in

Including some

Something at a greater level of detail

More than you would by just writing

Things down

Encoding is changing information into a form that can be stored and later recalled

Because as you drool

You're thinking about different aspects

He said it makes

Intuitive sense

Intuitive

Means it's based on feelings

Rather than facts

So you just

Fear it's the best thing to do

Of course this is just one more way to improve your memory

I've also heard that doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku

Especially when you're older

Yes as we get older we can often have more difficulty retrieving information

From my memory

People with Alzheimer's

Find it very difficult to encode information

So anyway to keep our memory working is a good thing

Basically we need brain training

Brain training and eating the right food rub

You might remember that earlier I asked you a quotient

Seafood website

Which type of food

Support

Good memory funk

Is it a

Beets and it'll see bananas

And rub you said

I do remember and I said be spinach

And that is sort of the wrong outside in fact they were all correct

They'll roll examples

The food that can

Can help support good memory

Apparently foods rich

B vitamins

Are important

As I provide protection for the brain as we age

Support good memory funk

It's time to change my diet

912 the vocabulary we looked at

So today we've been talkin about our memory

We use all memory to remember

Imemories is the noun for things we remember from the

Then we discuss the learning style is kinesthetic

That is learning-by-doing

Think something over

Over again

We heard from Professor download Kona who talked about contextual representation

When something is context

You see it in the situation where usually exist

We talked about encoding

That is changing information into a form

That can be stored

And later Rico

And we mentioned intuitive sense

Having an intuitive sense

Means doing something based on feelings

Rosen facts

So you just feel it's the best thing to do

And finally we mentioned Alzheimer's and disease affecting the brain

That makes it difficult to remember things

Well there are lots of new words to remember that but that's over this program

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