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.
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
