The scans found ordinary members of the public had brains as sharp as the world's largest memorisers after a simple brain training course using the technique of Sherlock-style 'mind the Palace'.
It means the ability to perform feats of amazing - as recall dozen lists several words - you can learn, say scientists. After 40 days of daily 30-minute sessions people were typical memory skills at the beginning and any practice earlier more than doubled its capacity. Individuals who had the typical memory skills at the beginning and there is no previous memory training were of recalling an average list of 26 words to remember 62, report the researchers in Neuron.Four months later, without a continuous training, recall performance remained high. Brain scans showed that memory training actually alters the functions of the brain of the participants. After the training we see massively increased performance on tests of memory,' says first author Martin Dresler, Assistant Professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.Not can only lead to a change of behavior, the training also induces patterns of similar brain connectivity such as those seen in the athletes of the memory. Dr. Dresler examined the brains of world class memory athletes 23 and 23 people similar in age, health status and intelligence, but with typical memory skills. He found that there were no differences in the anatomy of the brain between the champions of the memory and normal people. The differences that were detected were in patterns of connectivity in 2,500 different connectors on the brain. Memory athletes aren't born with different brains. 'That, without a single exception, trained for months and years using mnemonic strategies to achieve these high levels of performance,' says Dr. Dresler. In this study, the strategy that elected Dr. Dresler was loci of training memory, also known as creation of a 'memory Palace' - the secret weapon of Sherlock Holmes. It is important to remember this place in as much detail as possible since it is the Palace of your mind. If you want to remember a shopping list, for example, imagine putting all items at specific locations around your living room. This means that each item in your list of partners with a place remembered in his room sitting. Users browsing remembered there as remember the list. To explore the effects of training on the brain, Dr. Dresler and his colleagues recruited 51 individuals matched similarly memory athletes, but with typical memory skills and prior training of the memory. They were divided into three groups: two groups of training and a group that not trained. Researchers scanned the brains of participants before and after the training. The two methods of training were the memory training short-term and strategic memory training. During the training of the short term memory, an individual practice to remember sequences, a little like the concentration of game play. Strategic memory training provides students a systematic way to remember lists. Those who trained showed a substantial improvement in their ability to remember lists of words. Before training, individuals could recall on average between 26 and 30 words. Then, those with strategic memory training could recall more 35 words on average. The trained short-term memory could remember more words 11. Those without training recalled words of more 7. 'Once you are familiar with these strategies and know how to apply them, can maintain its high performance without much additional training,' says Dr. Dresler.After training, brain scans of those in the strategic training group had changed. They showed patterns that more closely resemble the champions of memory that scans taken before the training. To begin to understand the patterns of connectivity in the brain's memory athletes affect memory performance, Dresler and his colleagues looked at 25 connections which differ most athletes of the memory of others. There were centers of connectivity to two regions of the brain. One, the medial prefrontal cortex, it is known that it activates when individuals relate new knowledge with existing knowledge. The other, the right dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, is known to be involved in efforts to learn strategically. 'It is logical that these connections would be affected,' says Dr. Dresler.
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