This site is primarily focused on reporting on cognitive and brain research, providing the evidence-based foundations for the articles on Mempowered, and my books.
For more user-friendly advice about improving your memory, or dealing with cognitive problems, go to my companion website Mempowered.
Dr Fiona McPherson has written several books on memory & learning, including:
Successful Learning Simplified NEW!
How to Approach Learning: What teachers and students should know about succeeding in school FREE!
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Data from more than 17,000 healthy people aged 50 and over has revealed that the more regularly participants engaged with word puzzles, the better they performed on tasks assessing attention, reasoning and memory. Study participants took part in online cognitive tests, as well as being... Posted: Tue, 25 July 2017 |
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Data from over 11,500 participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort has found evidence that orthostatic hypotension in middle age may increase the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia 20 years later. Orthostatic hypotension is the name for the experience of... Posted: Thu, 13 July 2017 |
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A pilot study involving 41 military veterans and 5 active-duty soldiers diagnosed with clinical levels of PTSD has found that one month of transcendental meditation produced dramatic benefits, with 37 (80%) having their symptoms reduced to below the clinical level, and 40 having a clinically... Posted: Fri, 2 February 2018 |
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We've all done it: used the wrong name when we know the right one perfectly well. And we all know when it's most likely to happen. But here's a study come to reassure us that it's okay, this is just how we roll. The study, based on five separate surveys of more than 1,700 respondents,... Posted: Fri, 13 May 2016 |
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In a series of experiments involving college students, drawing pictures was found to be the best strategy for remembering lists of words. The basic experiment involved students being given a list of simple, easily drawn words, for each of which they had 40 seconds to either draw the word... Posted: Tue, 18 July 2017 |
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A Finnish study involving 338 older adults (average age 66) has found that greater muscle strength is associated with better cognitive function. Muscle strength was measured utilising handgrip strength, three lower body exercises such as leg extension, leg flexion and leg press and two... Posted: Thu, 13 July 2017 |
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In a series of experiments involving college students, drawing pictures was found to be the best strategy for remembering lists of words. The basic experiment involved students being given a list of simple, easily drawn words, for each of which they had 40 seconds to either draw the word... Posted: Tue, 18 July 2017 |
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When you're reading a picture book to a very young child, it's easy to think it's obvious what picture, or part of a picture, is being talked about. But you know what all the words mean. It's not so easy when some of the words are new to you, and the open pages have more than one picture. A... Posted: Fri, 21 July 2017 |
