How Your Memory Works

To know how to improve your memory, it helps to have a general
understanding of how your memory works. I have created specific
exercises based on this knowledge, exercises that will help you improve
in each of the areas of your memory.
The roots for the way we think about memory today actually
have a long history, dating at least back to the time of the Greeks,
and perhaps earlier. Accordingly, I have included a little history
about the way psychologists have thought about memory that has
developed into the model of memory that psychologists commonly
hold today and that I use in this book.