Strategies to Enhance Memory for Action

• Strategies to Enhance Memory for Action:

  • Reduce complexity of the verbal instruction
  • Change abstract concepts into a meaningful set of movements
  • Direct attention focus to the outcome, not process
  • All of the above Reduce working memory load, allowing:
  • Storage of info in long term memory
  • Retrieval of info from long term memory
• HOW to Enhance Memory for Action:

  • Visual metaphoric imagery
  • Increase meaningfulness of movement task
  • Verbal labels
• Further Strategies to Enhance Memory for Action:

  • Keep time between instructions / demonstration and practice short and free of other activity
  • Do not describe or demonstrate ‘what not to do’
  • If a patient asks questions after your demonstration/instruction repeat them before you allow physical practice
  • Demonstrate a sequence rather than parts – help people make sense of the whole first