contextual representation
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Neil: recently, a new study has come up with a method that could possibly be the best way to improve your memory and that's by drawing. Daryl O'Connor, who's Professor of Psychology at the University of Leeds, has been speaking about it on the BBC Radio 4 programme, All In The Mind. See if you can work out why…
Daryl O'Connor : The authors certainly argue that one of the things that happen by drawing these particular objects, that it leads to this increased contextual representation of the object in one's mind… It makes a lot of intuitive sense – the idea that if you have encoded something in a greater level of detail, you're more likely to remember it… It's much stronger than just remembering writing down the words.

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The article is basically saying that by drawing the object, you look at it / think about it in more detail and it gives the mind more 'things' (hooks) to remember about the object.. and therefore, you are more likely to remember it.

Contextual representation means 'representing something in context'. 'Representation' in this phrase could refer to the act of drawing or the actual drawing (picture), both of which increase focus on the object, and hence improve memory (according to the article. 'Contextual' could refer again to the act of drawing the object, or where you drew it etc. or it could refer to the 'context' in which the object is drawn.. e.g. imagine if your brother just brought a new car, and you were asked to draw a car.. you might draw a picture of a car with your brother next to it.. which gives it context, and makes it more memorable!

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Hi Mike
The phrase: contextual representation

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