There is nothing too smart or too stupid for a mnemonic. They can teach you features of specific neurological disorders, or they can teach you how to open a jar. Here are some of the cleverest memory ...

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: ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A friend wrote that she had a great way of remembering a complicated topic. “I created a pneumonic device,” she said. And an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...