Sunday, July 29, 2007

Improving Memory

According to the summary of an article from the July 25 edition of Cognition, the use of gestures as part of study techniques, dramatically improves recall of information or concepts.

A couple of years ago, after seeing a similar study, I led one of my granddaughters through a wild, stomping, jumping study of social studies. I don’t know how much it helped, but she did well on the test and it definitely made studying more fun.

The URL for this summary article is
http://www.eurekalert.org/pubnews.php?start=75

This technique brings new meaning to the term, memory exercise.

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