To remember something, it is better not to write and draw

Canadian scientists from the University of Waterloo found that the sketch required to memorize information - this is a great way to improve your memory. If you want to better remember something, it will be correct to sketch.

"We compared the sketches with many other memory strategies, but drawing benefits at all, - said Jeffrey Ueyms [Jeffrey Wammes], PhD Department of Psychology at the University of Sciences. - We believe that the advantage lies in the ability to create a more coherent recollection, combining visual component, motility and semantics »

. In the experiment, the students who participated in the experiment offers a list of simple concepts that could easily sketch (such as "apple"). They had 40 seconds, during which they can either sketch object, or several times to write his name.

They were then given an abstract task associated with the work with music to-remember words they went into long-term memory. Then they returned to the list of words and asked to recall as many as possible in 60 seconds.

It turned out that the students sketched the concept as a whole is better to cope with the task to recall as many words as possible. In other cases, people could remember twice plotted concepts than the one who wrote them.

On the results are not influenced by the different variations of attempts to memorize words in written form, such as decorations letters, recording words in a certain order, the enumeration of the physical properties of objects, etc. Figures have won handwritten words, even when on a sketch of the test was given to a total of 4 seconds instead of 40.

In addition, the researchers stressed that the quality of the pictures did not affect the quality of memorizing words - technique works regardless of the student's artistic talent

. So far, the technique has been used only for single words. Scientists are now trying to figure out why it works so well, and how it can be adapted to work with other types of information.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/274805/