可可电台，每期节目一话题，让英语磨练耳朵的同时学到更多有益的小知识，丰富知识的同时受益于生活。

Things we can do to improve our memories

改善记忆力

Incentivize Moments and Read Cues

激励的时刻和阅读提示

Minds wander constantly. For students, adding frequent tests incentivizes focus because they know they’ll be quizzed. Harvard researchers report this approach decreases daydreaming by 50 percent, improving the result.

人们常常走神。对学生来说，增加考试频次会激发专注力，因为他们知道自己要参加考试。哈佛的研究人员称，这种方法能让走神的情况减少50%。

Daniel Schacter, a psychologist and a co-author of the Harvard study who also wrote“The Seven Sins Of Memory,”said the trick is focus. For some tasks, like online surfing, divided attention sounds harmless, but when we’re behind the wheel, it’s anything but. That forgetfulness can change the course of entire lives, the most serious vulnerability of memory, he added.

哈佛这篇研究论文的联合作者、著有《记忆七罪》(The Seven Sins Of Memory)一书的心理学家丹尼尔·沙克特(Daniel Schacter)说，专注是秘诀所在。对一些任务而言，比如浏览网页，分心似乎没有什么害处，但当我们开车的时候，分心绝对有害无益。他还说，健忘是记忆的最严重漏洞，可以改变整个生活的轨迹。

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