{"id":467113,"date":"2026-02-11T02:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T02:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:46:18","slug":"listen-theres-1-easy-thing-you-can-do-to-improve-your-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467113\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: There&#8217;s 1 easy thing you can do to improve your memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Share this <br \/>Article<\/p>\n<p>You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license.<\/p>\n<p>In a new podcast episode, a neuroscientist explains why some people remember more\u2014and one simple way to sharpen your focus.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s world, our brains are overloaded with information, making it hard to focus and remember. But what are the true limits of the human mind\u2014and why do they exist? And why are some people seem so much better at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/human-memory-3212912-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remembering things<\/a> than others?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.uchicago.edu\/directory\/Edward-S-Awh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Awh<\/a> is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of Chicago whose lab studies how the brain controls focus, memory, and attention.<\/p>\n<p>His research explores the connection between attention and working memory, why our conscious awareness is far more limited than it feels, and what those limits mean for life in an information-saturated world.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of the Big Brains podcast, he explains what we can actually do to improve our memory\u2014including one easy thing we can all do every day\u2014and how using the \u201cremote control of your mind\u201d could help you focus your attention, given the limited space in our brains:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/big-brains-podcast-can-you-improve-your-working-memory-and-attention-edward-awh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21745,49,48,84,12302],"class_list":["post-467113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-attention","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}