We receive a huge amount of information from the world. As you know, more than 80% is acquired by us thanks to the eyes. Something passes without a trace, something leaves a trace in our soul and returns to our head after a while.

Visual memory fills our memories with vivid pictures of the past, a large number of details, elements that are very difficult to describe in words and for a very long time. We remember our life bright and full thanks to the coordinated work of our eyes and our brain.

What is visual memory? How does it work, how is it combined with memory from other senses? How to improve visual memory and why is it needed? This article is written about this and many other things.

Visual memory, what is it?

Visual memory ... Explaining what it is is not so difficult. For example, you are going somewhere by bus, to another country, say. Together with you - about forty people whom you saw for the first time when boarding a vehicle. And so, before crossing the border, the bus stops and all passengers, including you, get off and mix with passengers from other buses. It takes about 20 minutes. A person with a well-developed visual memory (in this case, memory for faces) can easily isolate from the crowd not only the man who has been sitting next to him for the last two hours, but also most of the travelers from his bus. A person with a poor visual memory will remember two or three who were sitting in his field of vision.

Or here's another example. Suppose you visited Serbia 10 years ago. And now, at the mere mention of it on TV, or in conversations with friends, you imagine a vividly and distinctly picture: hilly mountains in greenery, and among them - a small beautiful house.

Now it's time to define visual memory. What is it, after all, is it?

Visual memory is a type of memory that is associated with the work of the visual analyzer. Responsible for preserving and then reproducing visual images.

There are several types.

Iconic. Its duration is less than a second. Information that was not used at this time is lost.

Short-term. Lasts up to 30 seconds.

Long-term. Especially long-term visual memory.

Eidetic memory, what is it?

Also, eidetic memory is allocated to a separate group. This is an ability that not all people possess, most often children, adolescents, and artists. It is an opportunity to keep bright and clear images of the objects seen in the head for a long period of time. Eidetics see the picture well even after it has disappeared from their field of vision.

Eidetism is a well-developed photographic memory. Some people use this concept as a synonym for visual memory, while we consider photographic memory as part of visual memory.

Remember, you have probably heard stories that some person reproduces the details of a picture he saw some time ago with amazing accuracy. Or about people who are ready to recite a variety of poems by heart without stopping. These are all personalities with a well-developed eidetic or photographic memory.

There are unique cases of eideticism. For example, the Italian bibliophile Antonio Maliabeki, who lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, at the end of his life could recite each of the books he read by heart. And there were more than 40,000 of them ... Or the 40th US President Ronald Reagan memorized texts just by looking at them.

Visual memory is an important storage medium

Interestingly, the use of visual images allows a person to encode a lot of memories.

It is enough for us to simply remember, for example, what a handsome man looks like, whom we see in the dining room at lunchtime. Remembering him, we see a picture. And now let's imagine that we need to describe it to a friend who has never had the honor of meeting this handsome man. How many words do you need? Hundreds. He is both tall and broad-shouldered, and his hair is long, but not very, up to his shoulders, like such and such an actor from such and such a movie, and his beard is the same as someone's ...

It turns out that a picture carries information from hundreds of words, which, you see, are much more difficult to remember. It is unlikely that a friend will be able to repeat everything she heard. Rather, she will now remember the image that she formed on the basis of the descriptions she heard.

And further. It seems that we only remember the picture. In fact, this is not the case. The visual image is supplemented by a large amount of information received from other senses.

For example, five years ago you visited a famous restaurant abroad. And then, walking down the street, out of the corner of your ear you hear that someone outside is mentioning the name of this institution in a conversation. A picture immediately rises in front of you: you are sitting, and in front of you is a gorgeous table with a tablecloth hanging to the floor, gathered in several places, twilight, a glass of wine on the table, and many - many flowers around.

Is this all of this? Not! Surely, you almost felt a subtle smell, which probably came from the kitchen then. And they also felt a slight coolness, tk. when you were in the restaurant the air conditioner worked well and you got a little chilled. Also, of course, the sounds of live music, calm and unobtrusive, which you then heard, flashed through my head. In addition, the name you heard for some reason immediately improved your mood. After all, then, 5 years ago, in this overseas restaurant, your current husband proposed to you.

All this happens because visual memory does not work alone. To it is also added auditory, olfactory, tactile, emotional. The picture is supplemented by the results of the work of the senses, due to which a more complete, complete image filled with a large amount of information is formed.

Who has more developed visual memory?

Many are not left alone by the question, who has better visual memory? To better accept the answer to this question, let's give a slightly abstract example. Anyone who is interested knows that Americans have generally higher IQs than Europeans. And this despite the fact that the tests with which it is tested in US residents are more complicated.

Scientists attribute this to the fact that Americans are constantly, day after day, forced to use in their daily life those skills and capabilities that are tested in IQ tests. It turns out, without their active participation, the abilities of their brains are improved.

Roughly the same with visual memory. It is well developed among those who constantly use it.

For example, the Eskimos. They live where it is almost impossible to live - in the vastness of the Arctic. All around are monotonous white landscapes, some would even say depressive. The eye has nothing to stop at.

And the locals here have a super-sharp visual memory. It captures the smallest details that we, who grew up in a large imaginative variety, and would not have caught close. The eyes of the Eskimos notice among the monotonous pictures - ice and snowy mountains - various identification marks. That is why, even in the most difficult conditions, the Eskimo is not afraid to get lost. In winter, he will easily and quickly find his hiding place, in which he hid the hunted game in the summer. A large amount of visual information is stored in his memory, which helps him to survive in difficult conditions.

You can also hear the point of view that visual memory in women is better developed than in men. Allegedly, these differences are associated with the peculiarities of the structure of the brain in people of different sexes. We adhere to the point of view that if there are differences, then they are connected, first of all, with different conditions in which boys and girls grow and live.

For example, in girls, it is likely that since childhood hobbies prevail, games where visual memory is actively involved, there is a large number of visual images. Boys have a slightly different experience. Therefore, at some period of life, differences in the quality of visual memory can be recorded. But if there were no differences in the experiences of girls and boys in their childhood, there would be no differences in memory.

And a little more about animals. Scientists are all trying to figure out what kind of visual memory they have? This is quite difficult to do. They resort to experiments, during which they hide food in one of several shelters from animals right in front of them and wait until after what period of time the animal will be able to remember exactly where the food was put, in which shelter.

So we found out that the dog runs unmistakably to the shelter with food after 17 minutes of waiting, and the cat - after 6. It seems not very long. At the same time, it is difficult to imagine a complete picture of what is going on in the head of an animal. After all, they have a much stronger olfactory and auditory memory than ours. Therefore, they are perfectly oriented in their life situations, remember what they need instantly, do not suffer, in general.

How to improve visual memory?

Visual memory training can significantly improve the capabilities of a person as a whole. Study, work, everyday life ... In each of the areas there will be only advantages. A person gets the opportunity to more deeply perceive objects around, due to which he becomes more attentive, concentrated.

How to develop visual memory? There are many ways. For example, you can find special games on the Internet - simulators. Most of them have the same idea. For a certain period of time, you are shown various objects - pictures, facial features, etc., after which the images disappear and you are asked to remember what was shown and in what sequence.

Also, the following classes train visual memory.

Drawing. Portraits, landscapes, still lifes ... The point is that we first isolate some detail, then remember it, and only then transfer it to the canvas. It develops visual memory well.

Games. Remember kids games like "Find 10 Differences"? They are precisely aimed at the active development of visual memory. Find advanced options for adults, and go!

Memories. This is the best way to train not only visual, but memory in general. It lies in the fact that before going to bed, lying in bed, a person remembers everything that happened to him during the day. The main thing is that in the process of remembering in the head the corresponding visual images constantly appear.

Memorizing images. It consists in the fact that you are trying to remember as accurately as possible some image that was not so long ago in front of your eyes. For example, the face of a person who has been seen several times on the subway.

How exactly can photographic memory be improved?

There are also good exercises for training photographic memory.

Exercise # 1.

Observe an object, for example, at your desk at a distance of two meters, 2 minutes. Try to remember as many little things as possible. Keep your eyes on the picture for 2 minutes. Now close your eyes and try to imagine the color of objects, proportions, shapes ... Everything that is possible. If you forgot something, then open your eyes for a few seconds. This will allow you to remember the missing details.

After it becomes easy for you to train with objects, start using texts, complex pictures.

Exercise number 2.

It can be done while you are walking home or driving to work. Take a quick look at any object that comes across to you on the road. For example, a small shop. Look away and try to remember what you saw, draw a picture in your head. After a while, this kind of entertainment - training will become your habit. You won't even notice how improving your visual memory turns into pleasure.

Visual memory is persistent - it is preserved until a ripe old age, helps to find the address when the name of the street and house is forgotten, to find lost objects, restoring the picture of actions. Visual memory can be maintained and developed.

Memory is given to a person to help connect the past with the present. If there was no memory, humanity would not develop and move forward. It is the historical memory that makes it possible not to repeat the mistakes of the past. However, this is on a human scale. And what is the purpose of memory for each person separately?

There are different types of memory: auditory, visual, motor, motor. It can be short-term or long-term, sensory or mechanical. The most important function of memory for a person is the accumulation, consolidation, preservation and subsequent reproduction of his individual experience.

Each type of memory has its own ways of development, but perhaps most of all a person needs to develop visual memory. What are the ways to do this?

1. Attention and again attention

There are people who are observant by nature. Once in an unfamiliar place, they remember everything they see, and then they can easily reproduce it from memory. This can be done arbitrarily. Every day, walking along the same route, you can memorize all objects that come across on the way: houses, fences, trees, transformer booths, and then, as they say, reaching the destination, restore the entire route in memory.

But if you change the route during the week, the range of objects for memorization will expand even more, which means that the training will become more intense. In this case, it is advisable not only to remember the color or number of storeys of the house, but also how many windows are in the width of the floor, or how many entrances, or what swings are on the playground in front of the house. By "scrolling" in memory the entire tape in reverse order and remembering all these details, you can achieve phenomenal visual memory, and at the same time become very observant, which, in turn, will create a readiness for mastering other activities: for example, observation will help you become a good forensic scientist, an expert or a psychologist.

2. Associations

Associative thinking is more inherent in people with artistic abilities, and many of them have manifested these abilities since childhood. There are children who can see a pilot's seat or a king's throne in an ordinary chair. But with age, the desire to look for associations comes to naught, because adults no longer have such a power of imagination.

However, to develop visual memory, you have to remember about associations. For example, memorizing a road on a map, you can compare it to a snake or a ribbon. Emblems, emblems, some symbols can be perceived with a certain meaning. It is only necessary to fill every such sign with this hidden meaning. It will be understandable only to you, but this is what you are trying to achieve.

Memorizing phone numbers, dates and other number sequences can be greatly facilitated if each number in a row will generate an association with events in your life or the lives of friends and acquaintances. This can be the year of birth, the year of graduation from school, of marriage, of the birth of children, etc.

3. Taking pictures

Having mastered this method, over time it will be possible to memorize entire texts at a glance (see ""). You need to start training with two or three words that are remembered at first sight. Having "snatched" them out of the text with their eyes, you need to close your eyes and imagine. When success is consolidated, you need to start memorizing sentences, then paragraphs, and some even manage to do this with whole texts. But this level of skill is only possible with persistent daily training.

You can also train in pictures or small objects. Looking at any complex image for 10 seconds, you need to try in a minute or two to recover the smallest details in your memory. If at first you will remember no more than a dozen of them, then after intensive training, the number of remembered details can reach twenty or more.

The same goes for objects. If someone takes out small objects from the box, leaving them on the table, and then covering them for a while, then later they will need to remember all of them. Starting with five or seven subjects, you can achieve memorization of about twenty or even more subjects.

4. Roman room method

This method, also called Cicero's chain, is a very effective way to teach how to structure information for better memorization. The bottom line is this: the objects to be remembered must be mentally placed in a well-known room (for example, in your room), but in a strictly defined order. And then later, in order to reproduce the necessary information, you will need to remember this room.

Allegedly, this is exactly what Cicero, a famous Roman thinker and orator, did before his speech. Walking around his house, he placed the most important moments of his speech in well-known or favorite corners. And when making a speech, it was as if I was walking this route anew, remembering the key points. You can, of course, use as such a "storage" not only a room or a house, but also a street, a closet or even your desk, so long as these objects are well known for memorizing these very "nooks".

5. Mnemonics

This mysterious word is actually called a whole set of exercises aimed at memorization ("mnemo" - memory). These can be exercises aimed at memorizing persons, surnames and names, phone numbers. For this, it is important to arrange information in a special way. If a phone number with 11 digits located in it is extremely difficult to perceive, and even more so to remember, then these same numbers, broken by signs - brackets and hyphens, will be remembered with ease.

If at the same time the surname of this person and his face appear in the memory, then we can talk about certain successes. Remember how Gleb Zheglov in Stanislav Govorukhin's film skillfully recalled all the nicknames of the alleged criminal. The effect will be much greater if you memorize the phones of unfamiliar people, for example, customers or visitors.

There are techniques for self-hypnosis or hypnosis. People who are prone to such peculiarities can, with the right mood, memorize an entire book, and for the rest of their lives. But there are few such, but exercises with Schulte tables are available to anyone. They are used in teaching speed reading, since when working with tables, the speed of visual search movements increases and the rate of perception of the necessary information accelerates. They help expand peripheral vision.

Initially, Schulte tables were used for neurolinguistic programming to induce a state of high productivity for switching consciousness and performing sequential logical operations.

The simplest techniques can be exercises to compare similar pictures containing a set of differences. Or, on the contrary, such images in which it is practically impossible to find something in common, and only associations are capable of evoking the necessary information in the mind.

Of course, visual memory can develop naturally in those people who, on duty, have to memorize many faces: teachers, conductors, guides. However, it is important to understand that even the lack of a good memory as such is not yet a sentence, and thanks to hard training, you can achieve good results. The main thing is to do exercises in the system.

Not everyone can boast of a good memory. But like most skills, it can be trained through a system of exercises.

1. Divide pictures into elements

A part is easier to remember than a whole - if you find it difficult to keep a diagram or picture in memory, you can divide it into several elements and remember each of them. This principle has long been used in teaching. For example, students who study Chinese characters usually complain that they cannot remember them in any way. However, this happens only as long as they do not master a certain set of so-called "keys" and "phonetics". Both categories include a limited number of graphic characters that make up most of the hieroglyphs. Reducing tens of thousands of hieroglyphs to a couple of hundred keys and phonetics, you can memorize written signs much faster.

The same principle applies in most cases. Let's say you want to remember the image of a person. First, list what he is wearing: jacket, jeans, sneakers. Now go to each piece of clothing separately: his sneakers are white with three longitudinal blue stripes, with gray laces.

2. Solve mindfulness puzzles

Remember the tasks in the children's magazines "Find 10 Differences"? This is a powerful visual memory training, such puzzles are useful not only for children, but also for adults. By comparing two pictures that are not significantly different from each other, your brain learns to pay attention to detail.

Puzzles such as "which object in the picture is closer, and which is further" train to build a geometric perspective. It is helpful to memorize sequences of items. During such training, visual memory is active, which is responsible for the correct perception of space and composition.

3. Develop synesthesia

What does this building sound like? And what is the taste of this shade? It's more than just a game: by linking visuals to sounds, smells, tactile sensations, you force the brain to create complex associations. Later they will help you find the information you need in your memory. Synesthesia allows visual images to take root deeper in the brain. It causes neural structures in one sensory system to activate structures in another.

You may already be using the principle of synesthesia in your daily life to make it easier to remember. For example, most of the metro lines are associated with a specific color, and not all passengers remember their main names. By creating unusual associations, you develop creative thinking. Gifted musicians, writers or artists are known to successfully master this skill.

4. Draw intricate ornaments

Images and objects with a complex structure that defy logical description are the most difficult to remember. For example, many tourists easily find their way in New York or St. Petersburg, but get lost in Moscow or Madrid. The latter cities lack regular planning.

To develop memory, the following exercise is recommended. Take a photograph of a marble or malachite chip. Now try to draw all the patterns and veins on a separate sheet of paper. This is not an easy task. Then put aside the drawing and the original and try to depict the stone from memory. Take your time - if the first drawing is far from perfect, repeat the exercise a few more times.

5. Memorize images as sequences of words

Many people who fail visual memory have an excellent ability to memorize words. If you find it difficult to keep a person's face in your memory, try to remember his as detailed verbal description as possible. For example: “He has wide-set gray-blue eyes with heavy lids and thick eyebrows. The nose is slightly snub-nosed, with freckles. He wears black-rimmed glasses. "

Verbalization preserves details that elude visual memory in verbal descriptions. When you say the recorded phrase, the brain involuntarily presents images - so it will be easier for you to remember the image of a person.

6. Remember objects and details more often

The brain doesn’t remember details if you don’t give it such a task. You just met an old acquaintance on the street and stopped to talk a little. Now, as you move on, try to remember what he was wearing, his gestures, what the street looked like behind him. By focusing on details, you train the mechanisms for accessing your own memory. Beware of false memories, though: it's best to go back and check.

Visual Memory Development - Effective Exercises to Improve Memory

- What is visual memory?
- Checking the child's visual memory
- Visual memory and its types
- Ways and methods of memory development
- 6 exercises to develop photo memory
- Conclusion

A person's ability to memorize and reproduce living images in the most detailed reflection of them is called eidetic, photographic or visual memory. They are all the same. Visual memory allows you to remember / reproduce a text or image in the smallest detail. As a rule, such images are remembered for a long time and it is not difficult to remember them.

In fact, a person with a developed type of this memory is able to reproduce in detail a picture, a whole plot and scroll it in consciousness, like a video clip. As an assistant, to create the most accurate picture, auditory, tactile and, in many cases, olfactory memory is also added to the memorization process. All this increases the chances of remembering the event for a long time, since the images are as vivid as possible, and as you know, bright images are the basis of long-term memory.

When we look at this or that object, its visual image remains in our memory. Each of us will have his own. The ability to remember the shape, color of an object and its other features depends on how sensitive a person is to visual impressions.

There are many useful exercises to develop visual memory that do not require any special skills or additional equipment. Such classes can be done in any convenient place - at home, in the office during a break, etc., of course, having warned your colleagues in advance what you are going to do.

- Checking the child's visual memory

The ability to create a mental picture - a visual image - is important in the learning process. This skill helps to memorize concrete and abstract material better and faster. Good visual memory will help the student to cope with difficult tasks and memorize the learned subject for a long time, therefore it is best to train visual memory with visual material and elements of the game. It is a good idea to provide each exercise with a short story or background story. This is many times over.

Before starting the exercises, it is necessary to identify how difficult it is for a child to memorize pictures. To do this, in front of him, it is necessary to lay out 10 images of objects, different in shape, color and purpose. For 30 seconds, the child examines them, tries to remember. Then the pictures are turned over, and the child tells from memory what objects he remembered.

If you managed to name less than 5 objects, then you need to pay attention to training visual memory. But for children who have shown a fairly high result, it also does not hurt to do exercises from time to time.
IMPORTANT!

Before the child begins the assignments, it is worth explaining that his task is to memorize the drawing, the objects that will be shown to him. And after he closes his eyes, you need to present an image of what he saw.

- Visual memory and its types

Depending on the details with which a person reproduces a particular visual image in memory, visual memory is poorly developed, moderately developed and developed to perfection. Most of the people in this regard are within the norm, which is enough for ordinary life. But there are areas of activity where this is not enough. Special agents, artists, chauffeurs, art critics, etc. need a visual memory above average.

To train visual memory, which only weakens over the years, is desirable not only for them. If you do not want to forget the faces of acquaintances, lose things, poorly navigate the terrain, regular training of visual memory will help you to preserve it.

Exercise # 1: Returning Attention.
For this exercise, you need to take a comfortable position, relax and begin to examine the hand in detail, trying to peer into every millimeter of it. During the exercise, you need to concentrate and not think about anything. If attention is scattered, you need to bring it back. Total exercise time: 10 minutes a day (5-7 seconds several times a day, changing the angle of view).

Exercise # 2: "dissolve" the image.
For this exercise, you need to find some object (pleasing to the eye or neutral, but not a TV). You need to look at it for 3-5 seconds without stopping, trying to remember all the details. Then take a breath, close your eyes for 3-5 seconds, hold your breath and at this moment imagine an object. After that, mentally "dissolve" his image as you exhale. Performing this exercise, you can change the options for "erasing" the image, speed and rhythm.

Total exercise time: at least 2 times a day (you can gradually move from 5-7 exercises to 50 in one approach).

Exercise # 3: Trying to capture a subject.
It is necessary to look at an object (preferably colored) for 3 to 10 minutes. After that, you need to close your eyes for 3 minutes and try to reproduce the object in your imagination as clear and vivid as possible. The attempt must be repeated several times, constantly checking the original.

If you have learned to clearly visualize an object with your eyes closed, you can proceed to the second stage: look at the object for 3-10 minutes. Then turn 180 degrees and look at a sheet of white paper (prepare in advance). Your task is to see the image of the object on it. After you learn how to easily reproduce images of objects, you can move on to postcards and paintings.

Exercise # 4: Trying to "catch" what you see.
To complete the task, you need to suddenly stop and glance at the object in front of you. Then close your eyes and try to restore in your imagination what you saw and your state at the same time. With this exercise, you can learn to memorize states and reproduce them. Total exercise time: 10-15 times a day, to begin with 15-20 seconds, then 5 minutes.

Exercise # 5: "photographing" passers-by.
This exercise is easy to do outdoors. The task is to cast a glance at a passer-by ("take a picture"), and then close your eyes and imagine how and where he continues to move. You need to train until you can easily learn to reproduce the "photographed" image.

Exercise number 6: play with matches.
In order to perform this exercise, you need to ask someone to lay out a figure of matches on the table and cover with a sheet of paper. The sheet is then lifted for 1-2 seconds so you can look at the figure. After that, you need to close your eyes and mentally count the number of matches. Then you can open your eyes and try to lay out the same figure from matches.

The final stage of the exercise is to check that the number of matches and their layout match the original. After you are able to freely build a figure of 10 matches, you can proceed to the next exercise.

Exercise # 7: posting associations.
This difficult exercise is also done with someone else's help. Prepare matches in advance (200-300 pieces). Then you need to ask someone close to you to pronounce the words with a certain pause (for a start, 1 minute), which should be shortened from exercise to exercise up to 30 seconds. During a pause, you will need to lay out associations from the matches that the spoken word evokes. The number of words can also be gradually increased, bringing it to 50.

Exercise # 8: Trying to See the Bright.
During this exercise, you need to try to look at the object without thinking about anything, trying to remember it in its entirety (the first exercise was devoted to this). It is necessary to cover the whole object with a gaze, concentrating on its center. As soon as you have any (any!) Thought, you need to close your eyes and imagine this object in the most vivid color.

- Ways and methods of memory development

To begin with, it is worth noting that we often train our memory and attention, using various everyday situations in everyday life. We remember what we want to buy in the store, we try to remember the birthdays of relatives, friends and acquaintances, we retell the content of a recently read book or textbook - all this and much more is a good memory training. However, the use of special exercises allows us to concentrate on a specific goal of developing a certain ability of our memory.

- 6 exercises to develop photo memory

1) Break the pictures into separate elements.
A part is easier to remember than a whole - if you find it difficult to capture a diagram or picture in your memory, you can divide it into several elements and remember each of them.

You can capture the appearance of a person in your head by first listing the categories of clothes that are currently on in your mind - for example, "jacket, jeans, sneakers", and then subjecting each item of clothing to the same analysis: "white sneakers with three longitudinal blue stripes, with gray laces "and the like.

2) Solve mindfulness puzzles.
What seems like child's play is actually a powerful visual memory exercise. By comparing two pictures that are not significantly different from each other, your brain learns to pay attention to detail. Which of the objects is closer and which is farther? By answering this question, your brain is training the ability to build geometric perspective. In what order were the items to be remembered? This type of puzzle involves that part of the visual memory that has to do with the correct perception of space and composition.

3) Develop synesthesia.
What does this building sound like? And what is the taste of this shade of color? This is more than just a game: by connecting visual elements with certain sounds, smells, tactile sensations, you force the brain to create complex associations that will help it find the information you need in memory. Synesthesia allows visual images to take root more deeply in the brain, as its use causes certain neural structures in one sensory system to activate structures in another.

4) Draw irregular ornaments.
The worst memories are those images and objects in which there is no clear logic. Here is another exercise that is best done from childhood - it has too powerful an effect on the development of visual memory. Take a piece of stone with irregular veining patterns (you’re unlikely to have a piece of marble or malachite on hand, but you can use a detailed photograph of these minerals or a splinter of ordinary cobblestone) and try to sketch it with colored pencils on a piece of paper.

You will see how difficult this is: every two veins will have their own shape, length and thickness, color shades. We'll have to sweat. When you have drawn, remove both the original and the drawing - and now try to draw the surface of the stone from memory. Take your time - if the first drawing from memory is far from perfect, repeat the exercise a few more times.

5) Memorize images as sequences of words.
Many people who are let down by visual memory have an excellent ability to memorize words. This exercise is based not only on the ability already mastered by us to break down whole images into elements, but also on the ability of our brain to replace objects with symbols. If you can't remember the face of a nodding friend, try to remember it as a verbal description, and as detailed as possible: “He has blue eyes, with dark dots and red streaks. His nose is slightly snub, and several freckles are visible on it. His lips are chapped and red. "

Verbalization will allow you to pack details that elude visual memory in boxes of verbal descriptions. When you learn these phrases and begin to pronounce them, your brain will inevitably imagine the parts of the face that correspond to these definitions - and, as you will notice, it will be easier for him to recall the real image of a person's face than to come up with abstract pictures for these descriptions.

6) More often remember objects and details of the entourage.
The brain does not remember details if you do not set such a task for it. After talking with an acquaintance whom you met on the street, and continuing on your way, try to remember: what was he wearing? What gestures did you make in conversation? What did the street look like behind him - were there, for example, benches, and if so, how many and how did they stand?

By forcing the brain to look for the answer to these questions, you train the mechanisms of access to your own memory, and at the same time attention to detail, since the brain will quickly get used to the next chance meetings to note how the interlocutor looks and in what scenery the conversation with him takes place. True, you should beware of false memories - go back to your place and check: did the brain invent some element of the entourage that you were vainly trying to get from it?

- Conclusion

It is very useful in modern life to have a good visual memory. Therefore, it is so important to train your ability to memorize visual images. It is developed differently for each person, but it is never too late to change everything for the better for oneself.

If you do not train your memory, then over time a person begins to forget everything. And remembering something new becomes an overwhelming task for him. A person who has a good memory is able to quickly solve any problems and it will not be difficult for him to find a way out of any, even the most desperate, situation.

Start training your visual memory today and in a month you will not recognize yourself.

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