Improving your working memory can profoundly impact your daily life, from improving your learning capabilities to boosting ...

In prior lessons, we learned some of the key principles of memorization: Lesson 1: encoding, consolidation, retrieval, re-consolidation Lesson 2: getting motivated Lesson 3: paying attention Lesson 8: ...

Perhaps the core insight to be taken from our study of memory is this: anything that grabs our attention in the outside world will also do so in our inner world of memory. Memory, just like our eyes ...

A mnemonic is a device which aids the memorisation of something. The word comes from the Greek 'mnemonikos', which refers to the mind. These devices come in many ...

Mnemonics is a fancy term for mental devices that help memory. People have used these devices for more than 2,000 years to learn lists that they dare not forget. (For example, mnemonics are useful ...

Ravindra Kondekar, an alumnus of IIT Bombay, spent more than 27 years working in the Indian technology industry. He has worked in software development for the Department of Space and for many ...

Over the last thousand years English spelling has been influenced by lots of different languages, including French, German and Latin. Because English has borrowed words from other languages, lots of ...