![]() For someone who is new to the subject, this would serve as a fascinating, and very satisfactory, introduction into the world of memory. Also, you're not always going to have a list or all your research data in front of you when it's convenient, so it's best to always keep our memory in top condition.įor me, I was already familiar with most of the information above before I came to the lecture series. a list of presidents), brains have the creative edge, as they can form links between, say, the 16th President of the United States (Abraham Lincoln) and his relation to the Civil War. While computers beat us at storing information (i.e. The last lecture discusses the important differences between computers and our brains. Although, I really wished Vishton had discussed fasting and nootropics more, as both of those subjects have been trending in neuroscience. The fifth lecture discusses the big three methods of keeping our brains in peak physical condition: exercise, sleep, and nutrition. The fourth lecture discusses how to better remember information in school instead of cramming and doing studying all at once, spreading out the same number of study hours from one cramming session into a series of smaller, spread out study sessions improves the amount of information stored while simultaneously reducing the amount of information forgotten. The third lecture discusses how our entire brains are responsible for memory storage, hence the importance of overall brain health. If you don't believe me, give it a shot for yourself the Method of Loci works. Believe it or not, I am still able to remember most of the grocery list from this lecture even though I only listened to the lecture and grocery list one time. This gets us practice into making a "memory house" or a "memory palace" where we can store long lists into our brains more efficiently. The second lecture was my favorite - the Method of Loci. ![]() ![]() This encodes long sequences of numbers into images, and one can afterwards decode them from their images back to their numbers. The first lecture discusses the major system: encoding numbers 0-9 into a series of consonants to create combinations of words and making them into images. So, by knowing how our brains work, we can know how to, more efficiently, encode memory into our brain. The lecture series begins with an analogy: by knowing how a computer works, we know how to encode memory into a computer. ![]()
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