Introduction Have you ever needed to remember a long list of words, such as state capitals or items on a shopping list? Even if a list can be full of interesting facts, it can still be hard to ...

A time-honored mnemonic method used by memory athletes -- people adept at feats such as quickly memorizing the sequence of all the cards in a deck or a vast string of digits -- can be taught to people ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's 35 degrees outside but high in an RMIT University tower in Swanston Street the air is chilled to just 19 – brain temperature.

Just six weeks of training can turn average people into memory masters. Boosting these prodigious mnemonic skills came with overhauls in brain activity, resulting in brains that behaved more like ...

I first got interested in memory training at age 15 when my dad was a salesman for the Dale Carnegie leadership course, which included a section on memory training. My dad taught me some tricks that ...

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, is said in the story to store vast amounts of memory by placing important information in ``imaginary locations in his head.'' I am.

Memory champion and neuroscientist Boris Nikolai Konrad had his own brain scanned for the research You can super size your memory to make it more like that of a world champion, according to scientists ...

Yes, you can super-size your memory to bring it to the level of a memory champion, a new study has concluded. Brain scans revealed that memory athletes’ brains do not have a unique anatomy but instead ...

To remember something like a shopping list, associate each item with a different image that will stay in your head - for example, a sheep eating a huge piece of bread. The principle is to connect ...

So-called “memory athletes,” for example, participants in the annual World Memory Championships, can rapidly learn and retain large amounts of information. Top athletes can quickly memorize a list of ...