eor | brain practice

I heard a bit on the radio today that said people could actually improve their cognitive capabilities as they aged (hard to believe if you're over 30). The trick they said is to exercise your memory in three different ways. One way was to exercise longterm memory. The example they did was pick a year that you lived through and begin to think of all the things you can remember associated with that year. The second way was to try to work short term memory with keeping track of multiple things. His examples made me think of concentration games or doing math in your head. The third way was sense memory. It seems mainly it's an exercise in concentrating and focusing.

So maybe there is hope for me after all. Of course, I couldn't remember the third kind of memory exercise, I had to look it up. :)

If you're interested, the piece was on "All Things Considered" and is available online.