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Can you improve your memory?
Practice can improve your memory for facts dramatically. Simple ways include associating a picture with a word, making up a story, or rhymes ('30 days hath September'). The key is to associate facts with meanings – a strategy used by professional memorisers, or mnemonists. Associations can sometimes lead to false memories – if you see a list of closely linked words (sugar, chocolate, cake), you might 'remember' a related word that was not in the list (sweet).
Dominic O’Brien is an eight-times World Memory Champion. He holds the world record for correctly memorising the sequence of 54 shuffled decks of cards seen once, with only eight errors.
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