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The role of coffee in social interactions
Different types of coffee and their preparation
The impact of coffee on society and economy
Memory Palace
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.
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Lifestyle Changes That Can Improve Memory
- Get a good night's sleep or take a power nap after learning something new, to help retain and retrieve memories better. Sleep deprivation and acquisition of too much information will not help you save those memories.
- Get moving, to improve the flow of oxygen-rich blood ...
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The Science of Memory
- Encoding - the stage when the brain consciously acknowledges information based on our senses. When we attach meaning or factual knowledge to any of this sensory input, that's called semantic encoding which makes us retain memories longer.
- Storage - it is when inf...
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Chunking
... refers to the grouping of information into smaller sets, to easily remember them based on the patterns or organization each segments form.
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Everyday Memorization Techniques
- 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 ma...
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Common Mnemonics
- 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...
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Mnemonics
Any system or device designed to aid memory:
- patterns of letters or words (common mnemonics)
- ideas (memory palace)
- associations (chunking)
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Memory Palace/The Method of Loci
A method to enhance memory using visualizations with the use of spatial memory.
- Choose a place that you know really well.
- Plan the route and pick specific locations in your route.
- Decide what you want to memorize
- Place an object or two, with a menta...
Method for better memory
There's only trained memory or untrained memory - no good or bad memory.
- MOM method: Motivation (make remembering personal). Observation (attention is directly related to retention). Methods ...
1. The Loci Technique
Also known as “The Memory Palace, it consists of associating each item you’re trying to remember with a specific image and a place. You can imagine the items lying around in places that have a personal meaning to you.
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