The Science of Memory: Top 10 Proven Techniques to Remember More and Learn Faster

Any system or device designed to aid memory:

• patterns of letters or words (common mnemonics)
• ideas (memory palace)
• associations (chunking)

• Make new connections that are visual (and perhaps outrageous): Turn the sound of names into a visual representation and anchor it to a physical picture of whatever you want to remember; Animate the images to easily remember them; Engage as many of your senses as possible.
• Write notes or lectures down instead of typing them, to activate your brain and senses. Creating mind maps could also help you remember.
• Use spaced repetition, from short to long time spaces when recalling/reviewing an information.
• Share what you're learning, so you can prepare and organize your knowledge, and improve your understanding.

• Acronyms/Expression Mnemonics are sets of letters or words that correspond to certain words or meaning.
• Music Mnemonics are catchy songs or jingles that help you to remember long string of words or letters.
• Rhyming Mnemonics refer to the rhymes of the end of every line that create a song-like pattern.
• The Rhyming Peg System: In this system, for each number, you memorize an image of a word that rhymes with it. That image provides a "hook" or "peg" for things you want to remember, especially in order.

With the memory palace technique, you associate a location you're familiar with—such as your apartment, the block you grew up on, or the route you take to work or school—with the items you're trying to remember. It works because you're visually pegging (or "placing") representations of what you want to remember in places you already have strong memories of.

... refers to the grouping of information into smaller sets, to easily remember them based on the patterns or organization each segments form.