How to Improve your Memory for Study

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.

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