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(Medical-NewsWire.com, November 29, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA -- Recent studies have shown that using self-imagination methods (imagining something in relation to oneself) can actually help memory retrieval, especially for those people struggling with memory loss.
While it has been known for years that memory helps people enlighten themselves, a new study shows that the reverse relationship can also be beneficial to memory. Thinking about how something affects oneself can help retrieve a memory that would otherwise be lost.
Psychological scientists Dr. Matthew Grilli and Dr. Elizabeth Glisky from the University of Arizona did a self-imagination study involving 30 participants, and the results were convincing.
Researchers took 15 people with memory problems and 15 without, and asked each person to look at five lists of 24 adjectives that described personality traits, and to memorize them. The participants were asked to memorize the lists in specific ways that could help give the researchers insight into self-imagination and its usefulness.
When presented with each personality trait from the list, the participants were told to use one of five methods of memorization:
● Use a word that rhymes with it. ● Think of a definition. ● Self-Imagination (how the trait describes them individually). ● Think of a time they acted out the adjective. ● Imagine acting out the trait.
The results showed that those participants using self-imagination were best able to remember the word. The findings were for both memory impaired participants as well as those with no memory problems.
The findings support the hypothesis of the research that self-imagination can be a very effective way to help memory impaired people remember things from their past. It is believed that the results could be influential in the future of memory rehabilitation.
“Based on the results of our laboratory research,” said Dr. Grilli, “It might be possible to adapt self-imagination to help patients with memory problems remember information encountered in everyday life, such as what they read in a book or heard in the news.”
The findings by researchers at the University of Arizona may be some of the most progressive and important for memory rehabilitation in the last decade.
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