IMPROVING BRAIN POWER AND BRAIN POWER GAMES PLAY GAMES TO IMPROVE WORKING MEMORY
Brain power involves the ability to remember information and memorize facts among others things. Recall is central to the ability to think and brain function. Adding to the previous post about brain power games and improving working memory. A website about remembering information and improving the ability to remember lists three fundamental principles, imagination, association and location.
"Imagination,If you think about the sort of things that you can remember easily, what is common about them? The answer is that they are interesting in some way. Your brain is very good at remembering things that it finds interesting.This leads to a memory principle. Make the things that you want to remember interesting. Things that move, explode, flash and so on are more memorable".
"Association. One idea naturally leads to another. When things are connected, then we can move from one image to another with ease. This can be used in remembering lists (connect each item to the previous), or can be used to connect ideas to a way of remembering them".
"Location. This principle is derived from the ancient prescription given by Cicero and others, that memory images should be placed in locations that are familiar to you. This in a sense automatically ASSOCIATES your images with something that you have already memorized perfectly (the locations)".
Many games to improve brain power includes games to improve working memory. Working memory is one of the most important components of brain power. Some games to improve brain power work specifically on working memory. Working memory can be thought of as the ability to hold and use pieces of information in our heads for a short amount of time while working on a task or solving a problem like using a phone number or following a set of directions. In many games you have to remember information like positions of game pieces. However the amount of information we can hold is limited and the information itself is very unstable - a sudden distraction and the information is lost and you have to start again from scratch.
For an example of working memory brain power. Imagine you ask a policeman how to get to city hall. The policeman says "Go three blocks until you see a stop sign and make a left turn onto Green Street. Then look for the Calories R US supermarket about three blocks down Green Street.You go past 2 gas stations until you see the large white building next to the drive in restaurant.The type of memory needed to hold information in your mind while working on a problem or task is called working memory.
Here is a brainpower game to test your working memory. The game is called BumperCows.
"We use working memory for understanding language, solving problems, memorizing information, developing new ideas, in fact pretty much everything that is not automatic. So something completely automated like walking does not use working memory, but learning something new like a dance move would.
If cognitive processing ended at attention, you would conduct your life strictly from information received at the present instant, without any internal state of the mind or abstract thought. The words of this sentence would dart ephemerally in and out of your brain, becoming wholly devoid of perceptible meaning...
Instead of this mercifully unlikely scenario, however, your attention grants the words access to your brain’s working memory, which briefly holds and evaluates them for the duration of their relevance (i.e. until you have finished the sentence or idea).
Working memory, though operating over a timescale of mere seconds, is central to human thought processes. It allows you to temporarily hold and evaluate information in your mind, whether from the environment, stored memories, or internal state, thus allowing you to process the world within your personal context. Thus, working memory not only allows you to remember a phone number and find your way home, but is also central to language, reasoning, and most of the mental functions associated with human intelligence".
The above graphic about brain power working memory using remembering a telephone number is from
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar