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How to Improve your Memory for Study

How to Improve your Memory for Study

Jonathan Hancock

Nov 2011, Paperback, 216 pages
ISBN13: 9780273750055
ISBN10: 0273750054
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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

· The book is supported by a range of online resources, including: diagnostic tests; interactive games and challenges and personal progress checks. These help you to personalise your approach and connect the material to the study demands of people every day, all around the world.

· Delivers regular ‘wins’: short, powerful insights into memory and practical techniques that you can put to immediate use

Jonathan Hancock is a graduate of Oxford University, a double world record breaker and former World Memory Champion, and the author of nine books on memory and learning. His tenth has just been published as part of Hodder’s popular Teach Yourself series. He has demonstrated his learning techniques on numerous radio and TV programmes, run memory training courses in business and education, and now works as a teacher in a busy city school. In 2008 he joined forces with The Learning Skills Foundation to become Founder of The Junior Memory Championship, the first national memory competition for primary-school children. He is preparing to launch The Senior Memory Championship.

Foreword by Professor Alan Baddeley. With degrees from the Universities of London, Princeton and Cambridge, he is a world authority on human memory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Advisor to The Learning Skills Foundation. Alan Baddeley has a number of honorary degrees, and was awarded the CBE for his contribution to the study of memory.

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