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 want to show you guys the basic stick figure I use to pose all my figures so that I can draw from memory without having to use any reference. It is really easy and simple to do and this is the ...

There’s a very simple ... It’s so easy that absolutely anyone can do it. In fact, you’ve done it yourself, when you were a child, although maybe not since then. It’s drawing.

That was the finding of a recent Canadian study, which supports previous research showing that drawing aids memory better than writing notes or than picturing something in your mind or looking ...