Mr. Spence has pointed out that Ricci was a master of a special technique of memory: he would imagine for himself a great palace and within it, he would place objects related to items he was trying to memorize; as he mentally strolled through this palace, each item would have its place, come easily to mind and be seen as part of a harmonious order.
The memory control group underwent a one-day training workshop in the method of loci, a technique used to memorize items in an ordered sequence [59], [60].
Participants were explicitly instructed to memorize items for subsequent out of scanner recall.
In a verbal encoding study, healthy participants who spontaneously used a semantic strategy to memorize items showed greater activation in the orbitofrontal cortex, indicating that orbitofrontal cortex activation predicted which subjects would initiate effective verbal learning strategies (Savage et al., 2001).
A rote learning task is one in which people have to memorize the items on a list.
The current study also controlled the voluntary attention effect by using an intentional memory encoding task, in which subjects were asked to memorize each item and were informed in advance about the memory test.
In contrast, in the fourth study, the DLPFC showed increased activation when participants had to memorize a 6-item sequence compared with a 4-item sequence, that is, the DLPFC activity was related to an increase in the complexity of finger sequence retrieval.
Thus, when the task for the observers was to memorize colors, the items in the memory set were small colored discs.
In this study, participants were required to memorize an irregular 10-item sequence of finger movements.
Take the list of things you need to memorize and picture each item in your mind with the number objects.
