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The Memory Works® for Names & Faces
The Memory Works® for Facts & Figures
Best Intentions®
Nature of Memory®

A BREAKTHROUGH IN MULTI MODAL MODEL® MEMORY TRAINING, MEMORY IMPROVEMENT AND MEMORY FITNESS

WHY THESE PROGRAMS WORK

The most important step toward a better memory is deciding that you want to improve your skills. Research shows that you can improve your memory skills if you follow some specific rules and then practice, practice, practice. The Memory Works self-help memory training programs are unique because in addition to showing you the best rules and strategies and how to use them, Memory Works allows you to practice your new skills with real examples in the comfort and privacy of your own home and at your own pace.
The Memory Works¨ refers to a family of science-based memory training CD-ROM programs. These unique and highly interactive memory training programs help users improve their memory skills by eliminating the three most common reasons for memory training failure:
  1. lack of privacy
  2. lack of user control, and
  3. lack of practice.
How well one remembers is a very personal issue and is not something easily shared with othersÐespecially strangers. For this reason, many people who want to improve their memory fail to take action because most traditional memory training programs are classroom or seminar-based and typically involve many people.
The Memory Works CD-ROM memory training programs overcome these problems by allowing you to learn the necessary skills in total privacyÑanywhere a modern PC is available to you. The interactive CD-ROM technology also allows users to progress at their own speedÑin total control of their own learning process.
Bullet No waiting for a class to begin
Bullet No waiting for an instructor to answer questions you didn't ask
Bullet No waiting to get answers to your questions when you need to ask them
ll your questions can be answered anytime, from anywhere in the course. Within the Memory Works memory training programs, you are in total control of your own education!
Recent studies also show that people learn new memory techniques faster, and retain them longer, when the memory training involves practice of the relevant or 'task-specific' skill. Most traditional memory training programs offer neither the time nor the capability to deliver task-specific practice. But in the Memory Works memory training programs, you can practice your new memory techniques in real-world situations.
To help ensure your success, the Memory Works programs also provide a way to track your memory improvement. Seeing your skills grow will provide the motivation you need to continue practicing until you have mastered these important memory skills.
You'll actually be able to follow your progress using a quick test method. Noticeable progress will motivate you to practice more. Soon you'll practice your new skills in real life circumstances. As your skills and confidence grow, you'll know that you're on your way to mastering important social skills remembering an important name or special date. Memory Works....memory training that works!.

RESULTS OF NIH FUNDED RESEARCH
PMI scientists, under grants from the National Institutes of Health, have developed several CD-ROM programs:
1. The Memory Works for Names & Faces How To Make Social Interactions More Fun
2. The Memory Works for Facts & Figures How To Build Confidence in What You Know
3. The Memory Works for Best Intentions How To Remember The Things You Need To Do
4. The Nature of Memory Why Everyone Can Improve Their Memory Readiness








More About Memory Works® Programs

The Memory Works for Names & Faces and The Memory Works for Facts & Figures CD-ROMs address two of the most reported memory concerns of healthy normal adults.
The first two programs share the unique kIosQ® Intelligent Query User Interface to make navigation easy. Each program disc features an on-screen host who will help guide you through each strategy. You'll be able to test and retest yourself and keep track of your progress.
Our Experts, Dr. Douglas Herrmann and Dr. Dana Plude, will provide on-screen context-sensitive answers to your most frequently asked questions.
MEMORY WORKS FOR NAMES & FACES CD-ROM
REMEMBERING NAMES. Everyday, we attempt to recognize faces and recall names. If we fail to recognize the face, we obviously fail to recall the name. But the real problem is often when we recognize a person's face but not their name. The person knows we recognize them but we cannot recall the name.
REMEMBERING FACES. This program will teach you how to prepare yourself to make a better impression of faces in your memory, learn the names of others and recall those names when necessary. Presenting the latest in scientific knowledge and techniques for improving memory, this Memory Works program will help your memory for names and faces like no other.
After being shown two different strategies, you are introduced to many people. You'll have time to learn the most effective strategy for you to remember names and faces and to practice your new skills in simulated real-life experiences. The SALT method, for example, is easy and has proven to be highly effective for the many people who have discovered its simplicity. Demo the program.
MEMORY WORKS FOR FACTS & FIGURES CD-ROM
REMEMBERING FACTS. For many people this is always a challenge. From a simple grocery list, to the key points in a speech, sometimes we need to memorize lists. This program includes different strategies known to work: The Location Method and the First Letter Method. The unique presentation makes these strategies even more useful. The innovative and enjoyable Acronym Maker™ is a very powerful way to make list remembering easy and fun. It will give you hours of engaging practice and will surely help you in practical ways in various areas of your life.
Facts & Figures will show you strategies to help learn how to recall important facts you already know and how to build on your knowledge with new information that you will need to remember later, like finding your keys or eyeglasses. Presenting the latest in scientific knowledge and techniques for improving memory, this Memory Works program includes a test tutorial that lets you see your progress. It also includes an Extra Challenge Module that will help improve your spatial memory, the key to many memory tasks, while improving your memory skills for facts and figures. You'll find this card matching Challenge among your favorite memory exercises. This program will also help increase your confidence in what you know.
REMEMBERING NUMBERS is one of the most challenging memory tasks. Haven't we all found ourselves in trouble at one time or another because we just couldn't remember some vitally important number?
Why do numbers present such a unique memory challenge? Unlike words, numbers possess no inherent meaning. One way to make them more memorable, then, is to give them personal meaning. Two strategies are featured. First, the "chunking" method may already be familiar to many and a second, less familiar strategy, the "sound/number" method brings this long-standing, but seldom-taught method to the general public for the first time.
Also included is the Number Cruncher tool. Designed to generate strings of variable length numbers for you to practice with, the very useful Number Cruncher is your own random number generator and can be highly interesting in its own right. It's also a useful testing tool to measure your improving skills. Demo the program.
BEST INTENTIONS CD-ROM
This program is designed to help people improve prospective remembering–how to remember things they have yet to do. It will show you effective techniques and provide ample opportunities for effective practice. As with all Memory Works CD-ROM series programs, the "learn by doing and practicing" principle is the key to success.
Best Intentions includes four main section choices:
1. A Day In A Life
2. How To Remember
3. The Memory Monitor
4. Challenges
1. A Day In A Life—Test your skill for dealing with everyday activities inside a complete 3D virtual environment. Here you will be given a number of chores to accomplish before time runs out. This state-of-the-art simulation tool allows you to engage in various memory tasks. This simulation has the ring of reality. It's Saturday morning and you are preparing for your daughter's birthday party later today. Your spouse is out of town and you are going to make it all happen. The action will entertain you as you learn how to improve your intentional memory skills. Take the guided tour before you proceed. Have fun and good luck!
2. How To Remember—This section contains eight practical hands-on modules featuring different intentional memory categories of things you may have to do. Each module has a strategy video tutorial that instructs you in the techniques you need to improve. Six of the eight memory tasks have integrated practice sections. Practice in the other two sections is provided in "A Day In A Life" simulation.
The eight categories are:
Bullet Momentary intentions [e.g., why am I in this room?]
Bullet Chores and errands [e.g., pick up bread on the way home]
Bullet Deadlines [e.g., file your taxes by April 15th]
Bullet Takeaways [e.g., return rental video by 10pm]
Bullet Appointments [e.g., meet your boss at 9:00 am tomorrow]
Bullet Special events [e.g., buy card for daughter's birthday]
Bullet Medications [e.g., take two of these every four hours]
Bullet Phone calls [e.g., return a call to the electric company]
3. The Memory Monitor® module is designed to help you understand how your lifestyle can affect your everyday memory ability. Your memory is affected by many factors including health, fatigue, stress, motivation level, and diet, among others, all of which can change by the day or by the hour. Use the Memory Monitor to assess your present readiness for memory challenges and as you progress check it again to see how your memory may be improving.
4. The Challenge Section gives you the chance to play a classic card game for exercising your memory. Pay attention to the location of each card in the matrix as you try to find its match. Focus on pictures, shapes or words in this concentration-style game. It will help test and improve your important spatial memory and visual imagery abilities that complement your verbal memory skills. It's a lot of fun as you can see in the Challenge Demo.
NATURE OF MEMORY CD-ROM
This CD-ROM gives you the opportunity to learn about memory, from an overview of how our understanding of memory has evolved to a graphic illustration of how memory works in the brain. You'll be given the opportunity to assess your memory readiness and discover the latest developments in external memory aids. In addition, you'll be able to track the internal and external factors that affect your ability to remember.
Nature of Memory includes five main section choices:
1. The New Approach
2. The History of Memory
3. How the Brain Works
4. The Memory Monitor
5. External Memory Aids
1. The New Approach—provides a new understanding of memory performance involving factors outside your mind rather than in the past. It's multi-modal and changes from hour to hour. You'll gain a new understanding of how memory works.
2. The History of Memory—provides you with a brief history of memory and the decisive role played by human memory in all aspects of life, from the time of the ancients to the modern day.
3. How the Brain Works—provides a brief description of the psychology of brain functioning in relation to memory, distinguishing between memory ability and memory performance, and between short-term and long-term memory.
4. The Memory Monitor—alerts you to those areas of your everyday life that may need to be improved so that your memory will be at its best. There are 12 questions posed in this section. You respond by using a slider to indicate the degree to which you agree or disagree with each question. A video explanation of each question is provided by one of our experts. When you are finished, you'll see a graph that shows where you may be having trouble and how prepared you are to tackle memory challenges.
5. External memory aids—identifies how memory performance is not just in your head and provides insights on a variety of external aids, from alarm clocks to calendars, and how to make the best use of them in assisting your memory performance. Demo the program.
Other programs are being developed to help improve, monitor, and assess your memory skills.
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