Do you wish that you had a better memory?
Master Your Memory from The Oxford Centre for the Mind is a step-by-step guide that will help you emulate the techniques of expert memorisers. Using psychology, philosophy and neuroscience as well as lessons from the ancient world, it will help you to develop your memory and apply what you learn to a wide variety of real-life situations.
Filled with practical exercises to help you develop your memory skills, it starts off with an introduction to the different aspects of your memory and shows you what the brain finds easy to recall and why.
It will then take you through the techniques used by expert memorisers and show you in detail how to make them your own, providing you with the opportunity to use those techniques to create your own new memories.
It will demonstrate how to use different memory systems to take advantages of the brain's natural capacities and ensure that you can recall as much as you want in a way that makes it easy, engaging and enjoyable, as well as how to overcome the natural processes that cause you to forget.
It will show you how to apply what you have learnt to a wide variety of real-life situations including education, career and business. For example, remembering appointments, to-do lists, names and faces, numbers, historical facts, foreign languages, scientific formulae, legal cases, speeches and presentations.
Finally, it will show you how to practise your new-found skills and provide you with a number of quizzes, tests and challenges to ensure that you make the most of them.
Master Your Memory from The Oxford Centre for the Mind is a step-by-step guide that will help you emulate the techniques of expert memorisers. Using psychology, philosophy and neuroscience as well as lessons from the ancient world, it will help you to develop your memory and apply what you learn to a wide variety of real-life situations.
Filled with practical exercises to help you develop your memory skills, it starts off with an introduction to the different aspects of your memory and shows you what the brain finds easy to recall and why.
It will then take you through the techniques used by expert memorisers and show you in detail how to make them your own, providing you with the opportunity to use those techniques to create your own new memories.
It will demonstrate how to use different memory systems to take advantages of the brain's natural capacities and ensure that you can recall as much as you want in a way that makes it easy, engaging and enjoyable, as well as how to overcome the natural processes that cause you to forget.
It will show you how to apply what you have learnt to a wide variety of real-life situations including education, career and business. For example, remembering appointments, to-do lists, names and faces, numbers, historical facts, foreign languages, scientific formulae, legal cases, speeches and presentations.
Finally, it will show you how to practise your new-found skills and provide you with a number of quizzes, tests and challenges to ensure that you make the most of them.
