ScienceDaily: Brain Imaging Identifies Best Memorization Strategies

ScienceDaily: Brain Imaging Identifies Best Memorization Strategies: "the following four strategies were the main strategies used by participants in this study, according to Kirchhoff, including:

1) A visual inspection strategy in which participants carefully studied the visual appearance of objects.

2) A verbal elaboration — or word-based strategy — in which individuals constructed sentences about the objects to remember them.

3) A mental imagery strategy in which participants formed interactive mental images of the objects — similar to animated cartoons.

4) A memory retrieval strategy in which they thought about the meaning of the objects and/or personal memories associated with the objects.

Visual and verbal strategies improved memory

Selection of the first two strategies described above — visual inspection and verbal elaboration — resulted in improved memory results, according to Kirchhoff."