HELP YOUR BRAN TO REMEMBER

If your brain is ‘primed’ to receive information, you will have better recall later on.

Tracking brain activity before an event, researchers scanned the brains of participants in a study during memory tests, and found that they could see the priming occurring. The brain activity before the event proved to be a predictor of recall.

Meaning is Key

When subjects prepared themselves by thinking in advance about the possible meanings of words that flashed on a computer screen, instead of treating them as random assemblages of letters, their memory for the words increased.

Conscious Thought

The priming activity was apparent in the frontal lobes of the brain, where conscious thinking occurs; stronger activity there meant more accurate recall.