Chunking: How to Remember Phone Numbers (And Everything Else)
Brain Series Current: Chunking: How to Remember Phone Numbers Previous All Posts The Forgetting Curve Try to memorize this number: 2025551234567. Hard, right? ...
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The Forgetting Curve: Why You Forget and How to Stop It
Brain Series Current: The Forgetting Curve: Why You Forget Chunking All Posts Learn Like a Child You spend hours studying for an exam. You know the material cold. Then a week later? You’ve forgotten half of it. ...
H.M. and the Mystery of Memory: The Man Trapped in Permanent Now
On September 1, 1953, a 27-year-old man named Henry Molaison underwent experimental brain surgery to treat his severe epilepsy. The surgery worked. The seizures stopped. But when Henry woke up, he had lost the ability to form new memories. For the next 55 years, until his death in 2008, Henry lived in a perpetual present. Every person he met was a stranger minutes later. Every conversation was new. Every day was the first day of the rest of his life-literally. ...