familiar to you. I’ll walk you through one of my rooms to help you visualize the process. I walk into my office and go to the
corner immediately to my left. In my office, there is a white lab coat hanging on a hook. I feel the coat, put it on and take it off. I notice a big stain on the sleeve. Next, walking in a clockwise fashion, I look at the adjacent wall. Hanging there is a painting of purple mountains and green fields. I imagine myself as a child, rolling down those mountains. I can smell the grass. I walk to the next corner of the room until I reach a thick book, the “Physician’s Desk Reference.” I leaf through the pages. In the middle of the next wall
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is a small mirror. I feel how smooth it is. I make funny faces and laugh at my reflection. I continue moving around the room, picking distinct objects in the next corner, on the next wall, in the last corner and on the last wall. I now have eight memorable loci. I turn to the floor for nine and look up at the ceiling for 10. With my eyes closed, I can picture the items I’ve selected in each location in the room. These 10 locations become “pegs” on a pegboard on which I can hang whatever I want to remember. If I need to remember a list of 10
things, such as groceries, I can relate each item to the object in my office. The more ridiculous the association (e.g. my lab coat is soaked in milk, dripping onto
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the ground), the better I’ll remember it. Using this technique, I’ll no longer need a grocery list. I’ll mentally walk around my office and picture each item. Will learning these techniques make
you a national memory champion? Hagwood compares it to piano lessons; start with the basics, master them and then go to the next level. If you practice each week, you’ll be pretty good before you know it. You may start out playing “Chopsticks,” but with practice you’ll wind up playing Chopin. By practicing challenging tasks on a regular basis, your memory will improve.CV Dr. Lenny Salzberg teaches and sees
patients at the Southern Regional AHEC Family Medicine Center.
