Brain Coach Answers: How can I improve my short term memory? Is there a daily exercise I can do to improve it?

12 Comments

1. Hueina Su on November 19, 2006 at 8:07

   Great infor­ma­tion and strate­gies! Thank you for sub­mit­ting to the Car­ni­val of Healing.

   
   
   
2. Caroline on November 20, 2006 at 12:53

   Glad you enjoyed it Hueina! For those of you who want to read Car­ni­val of Heal­ing #60, click here.

   
   
   
3. haris on March 26, 2007 at 4:22

   hi,
   my name is haris.I am from pakistan,lahore .The math­od of link math­od is so easy and his writer is har­ry lurine.example
   we remem­ber= tree,aeroplane,letters,tops how to remem­ber it.It so easy first link with aero plane and tree link redi­clous and illog­i­cal­ly you see in your mind in the tree lots of planes is

   
   
   
4. Alvaro on March 26, 2007 at 7:37

   Hel­lo Haris: yes, visu­al­iz­ing fun­ny asso­ci­a­tions is anoth­er tech­nique to remem­ber things. Thanks!

   
   
   
5. Nyiligira john on May 20, 2007 at 4:44

   How can i improve my short term mem­o­ry and con­cen­tra­tions, effec­tive think­ing and clarity.please i want advice

   
   
   
6. Alvaro on May 21, 2007 at 5:57

   Hel­lo John, on top of the advice above, I’d sug­gest you take a look at our Brain Fit­ness Top­ics sec­tion. You will find great infor­ma­tion there.

   
   
   
7. chukwutem on August 1, 2008 at 9:06

   It was a won­der­ful lec­ture i enjoyed it very much.Please keep up the good work.

   
   
   
8. Mike on August 28, 2008 at 10:05

   I dis­agree with the state­ment “(If some­one tells you they can do their home­work bet­ter with the TV or radio on, don’t believe it. Any speech or speech-like sounds auto­mat­i­cal­ly use up part of your brain’s atten­tion capac­i­ty, whether you are aware of it or not.)”. For me, lis­ten­ing to very soft music helps me focus. If I don’t have music on, my atten­tion span drops dra­mat­i­cal­ly. It has been this way for many years.

   
   
   
9. nyra on September 8, 2008 at 4:50

   Hel­lo. Thanks so much for this web­site, it is very helpful!

   I’m actu­al­ly doing a sci­ence project on short term/long term mem­o­ry and how you can improve it. I’m test­ing to see if Brain Age (the video game) excer­sizes can help.

   This web­site has been great so far, and if you have any oth­er info, I’d love to hear it! Thanks!

   
   
   
10. KASI on October 20, 2009 at 8:44

    Com­mitt­ment with con­cen­tra­tion is the key to short,medium or long term meme­o­ry. Some of our Kids age events are mem­o­rable even today because we did them with com­mit­ted con­cen­traion whether play­ing or angry­ing or naugh­t­ing. But at this adult age we think some thing , tel out someother thing and do entire­ly dif­fer­ent thing whcih dis­ables us to rec­ol­lect our thoughts, words and deeds after moments.

    
    
    
11. John Barrella on October 21, 2009 at 12:59

    So, what is most need­ed, is the instill in your “awareness”…of what the heck is “wrong”. By know­ing what is wrong…then you can learn how to com­pen­sate for it. Neuropsych.testing…plus cog­ni­tive reme­di­a­tion classes…for as long as they are need­ed. Look into that…and if you get that assistance…you may become aware of symp­toms you may have nev­er thought of having…that may sound scary…BUT…THERE IS COMFORT OF AWARENESS…which will be a gift…a tremen­dous gift…Ninuccio

    
    
    
12. Faruk on November 20, 2009 at 4:59

    I appre­ci­ate every thing about the short/long brain term. When i was younger, i could assim­i­late and remem­ber very fast. But now the sit­u­a­tion is dif­fer­ent. I will try and employ d strate­gies and see if i will improve