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Sunday, July 30, 2006

Great Memory learning techniques

The Best of all I found is Chunking!!!!!!!!!!!

Chunking

Don't swallow it whole!
When someone gives you a phone number to remember, use 'chunking' as a way of remembering it. Short-term memory is limited so chunking helps us process long bits of information in more easily digestible chunks.

Most people can remember seven things, plus or minus two, which means that you'll usually be able to remember between five and nine things at most. So when given a string of numbers to remember such as 123957001066, break it down! 12 39 57 00 10 66 or even 1239 5700 1066 (chunks of numbers).

You may find it easier to chunk numbers according to something you find meaningful, like the age of someone you know, an address or a famous date (1066 Battle of Hastings). These attached meanings can then form a story to help remember a really long sequence.

Find out more at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/memory/

Regards

Phil.

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