Practice This Simple Hobby to Literally Train Your Brain to Stop Forgetting Things

This is an article about neuroscience and memory. First, I’d like to ask three specific questions:

• In the original Monopoly game, which property is statistically landed on most often and why?
• What everyday habit has been shown in sleep research to quietly wreck your memory the next day even if you think you “slept enough”?
• Who was the first male player to score goals in five different FIFA World Cups?

If you immediately felt either intrigued or slightly annoyed by these questions, good. That reaction is part of the point.

Because according to a new neuroscience study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, being able to answer deep, detail-oriented questions like these may literally reshape the brain. It can also potentially help protect cognition as you age.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Inc.