Strategies for Better Memory & Learning
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A New Yorker cartoon has a man telling his glum wife, “Of course I care about how you imagined I thought you perceived I wanted you to feel.” There are a number of reasons you might find that funny, but the point here is that it is very difficult to follow all the layers. This is a sentence in... |
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Keyword mnemonic
The one mnemonic strategy that has been investigated quite extensively by researchers is the keyword mnemonic. This has been used successfully in a variety of learning areas, but its chief use has been in the area of learning vocabulary. The keyword mnemonic is certainly... |
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Subliminal learning achieved notoriety back in 1957, when James Vicary claimed moviegoers could be induced to buy popcorn and Coca-Cola through the use of messages that flashed on the screen too quickly to be seen. The claim was later shown to be false, but though the idea that people can be... |
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I recently reported on a finding that memories are stronger when the pattern of brain activity is more closely matched on each repetition, a finding that might appear to challenge the long-standing belief that it’s better to learn in different contexts. Because these two theories are very... |
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Research on About Memory
- Attention training
- Children's learning
- Cognitive training
- Creativity
- Decision-making
- Expertise
- Face recognition
- Gesture
- Language cues
- Learning another language
- Meditation
- Mental stimulation
- Multitasking
- Music
- Practice
- Problem-solving
- Self-regulation
- Skill memory
- Spacing effect
- Strategies
- Strategies for older adults
- Study skills
- Testing