If you need help jogging your memory, you might try your hand at drawing. A recent study found that we remember items better when we draw them rather than write them down. In a study published in ...

In our first experiment, we tested people's ability to draw these faces by copying them. Thirty-seven participants completed 18 trials in which they saw a face on one side of the screen and had 60 ...

Instead, as a computer read words out loud, they were either instructed to write the word over and over, to draw it, or in some cases, write adjectives about the word like “furry” or “gray ...

Journal Reference: Miall et al. Drawing cartoon faces – a functional imaging study of the cognitive neuroscience of drawing. Cortex, 2009; 45 (3): 394 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.10.013 ...

A still image from Kota Ezawa’s 2002 video artwork “The Simpson Verdict,” included in the Hirshhorn Museum’s online exhibition “Drawing From Memory.” (Kota Ezawa/Haines Gallery, San ...

Go grab a pen and some paper and try this: Using only your memory, draw a bicycle. You have two minutes. Gianluca Gimini has over the past six years asked more than 500 people to do exactly this.

"I think by actually having to draw it that they learn it. This goes into their long-term memory, and they never forget it," Horton said.

Over the course of the study, 85 UCLA undergraduates were asked to reproduce an Apple logo from memory. Only one was able to draw the image correctly. Here are some of the versions they came up with.