Brain imaging identifies best memorization strategies

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How would you remember this strange image If you came up with the saying the pig is key to this image you would be using a verbal strategy one of four that WUSTL psychologist Brenda Kirchoff found that subjects used to remember a series of odd images ...
How would you remember this strange image? If you came up with the saying, the pig is key to this image, you would be using a verbal strategy, one of four that WUSTL psychologist Brenda Kirchoff found that subjects used to remember a series of odd images. Her findiings could have implications for aiding people with memory impairments and early onset Alzheimer's disease.

Exploring exactly why some individuals' memory skills are better than others has led researchers at Washington University in St. Louis to study the brain basis of learning strategies that healthy young adults select to help them memorize a series of objects. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers uncovered brain regions specifically correlated with the diverse strategies that subjects adopt.


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