Paint a Mental Picture with Multisensory Experiences

Paint a Mental Picture with Multisensory Experiences
Stimulating all of the senses during a presentation helps your audience to remember your ideas.
Think about the last time you were sunbathing.
How did your skin feel?
What did you smell?
What did your surroundings look and sound like?
How well can you remember all the details?
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We remember things more vividly when we experience them with all of our senses.
@RichardMayer sees the relation between multisensory stimulation and an improved memory as the next hot field for future research in cognitive psychology.
In Mayer's experience, students exposed to multisensory environments (videos, texts and images) are better able to recall information than students who receive information through a single sensory channel (seeing, or reading a text).
It follows that if you want to create memorable presentations, you should communicate in a way that appeals to more than just one sense.
Here, we'll look at how to communicate information via the two central senses: sight and hearing.
There are basically two ways to communicate information via sight: pictures and text.
You've probably noticed that the best TED talks use pictures rather than PowerPoint presentations that are often dense with text.
This makes sense, as we have a limited capacity for absorbing information.
Thus, a PowerPoint presentation filled with words can overwhelm and distract your audience.
Instead, use pictures to support your presentation, paired with a few focused keywords that support your argument.
Our sense of hearing can be stimulated by rhetorical devices, such as repetition.
Take https://s3foundation.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1c6a54879e93a41194fc9a7750ef20ec.jpeg 's famous speech, in which he repeated these four words: “I have a dream.” These words are still remembered today, and we immediately associate them with King.
A more recent example is @BarackObama 's famous phrase, “Yes, we can,” which helped unite the electorate around his message and get him elected as president of the United States.
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Paint a Mental Picture with Multisensory Experiences Stimulating all of the senses during a presentation helps your audience to remember your ideas. Think about the last time you were sunbathing. How did your skin feel? What did you smell? What did your surroundings look and sound like? How well can you remember all the details? https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6gE4FgSHW5D90fMQ/giphy.gif We remember things more vividly when we experience them with all of our senses. @RichardMayer sees the relation between multisensory stimulation and an improved memory as the next hot field for future research in cognitive psychology. In Mayer's experience, students exposed to multisensory environments (videos, texts and images) are better able to recall information than students who receive information through a single sensory channel (seeing, or reading a text). It follows that if you want to create memorable presentations, you should communicate in a way that appeals to more than just one sense. Here, we'll look at how to communicate information via the two central senses: sight and hearing. There are basically two ways to communicate information via sight: pictures and text. You've probably noticed that the best TED talks use pictures rather than PowerPoint presentations that are often dense with text. This makes sense, as we have a limited capacity for absorbing information. Thus, a PowerPoint presentation filled with words can overwhelm and distract your audience. Instead, use pictures to support your presentation, paired with a few focused keywords that support your argument. Our sense of hearing can be stimulated by rhetorical devices, such as repetition. Take https://s3foundation.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1c6a54879e93a41194fc9a7750ef20ec.jpeg 's famous speech, in which he repeated these four words: “I have a dream.” These words are still remembered today, and we immediately associate them with King. A more recent example is @BarackObama 's famous phrase, “Yes, we can,” which helped unite the electorate around his message and get him elected as president of the United States.