Imagining Action-Consequence to Boost Memory

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It appears that scientists are discovering memory techniques. :slight_smile:

The next time you hear about the possibility of rain on the weather forecast, try imagining the umbrella tip being lodged in your home's door lock, blocking you from locking it. This mental exercise could prevent you from leaving home without an umbrella.

Imagining an action between two objects (the umbrella being lodged in the door lock) and a potential consequence (not being able to lock the door) may help people improve their memory for relationships with other objects, according to a recent Baycrest Health Sciences study published in the Memory & Cognition journal.

Imagining an action-consequence relationship can boost memory

See also: This memory trick may help older adults boost

Are some actions more "sticky" than others?
Is it possible to improve your memory or not? Contradictory information.
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Powerful medicine JC. Thanks for the links :slight_smile:

By typing some key words from your links into Google, I found the following link, which gives more info on the actual memory techniques:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11903717

I’ve given a quote from the article, between the two dashed lines below. If anyone could actually find the ORIGINAL article, that would be great.

THE FOUR MEMORY TECHNIQUES

The first was unitisation, where they understood that one object would because of an action and consequence - one object would squash, cover or stab another in an animation which ends with both fused together.

The second was an “action and consequence” strategy, with participants also told it would help to imagine the objects interacting, but the pair never touching on screen.

A third strategy involved one object moving towards another, which people are sometimes told to imagine to remember items in real life.

The fourth animation, using a “fusion” strategy, linked the two items, but without any action pulling them together.

WHAT DID THEY FIND?

The results reveal that an action and consequence between two objects makes it far easier to keep them in mind.

The threshold in a memory test is 67 per cent to show that a particular mental strategy has worked better than simply trying to remember.

But people using the action and consequence technique, or unitisation, achieved 78 per cent after being trained in the memory game and playing it following an hour’s break.

The motion and fusion strategies fell below the threshold, suggesting they were little or no help.

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