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Your insight into science. Naked Science .com. TheBrain :: Mind Mapping Software, Brainstorming, GTD and Knowledgebase Software. Secret Study Skills - The Ultimate Study Secrets. Study Prof | Study Smarter | Not Harder. Who is smarter… LeBron James, basketball supah-star OR Neil deGrasse Tyson, astro-geek? Greg Phelps, water wunderkind OR philosophy-phenom, Martha Nussbaum? * Maybe a better question is; who is better able to use the brains they have? Granted, the uber-athlete is not going to be able to compete head-to-head with the mental-mighty-man in a straight-up brain battle. At least, not in the mental-giant’s chosen field. Your brain is a part of your body. As a society, we often think the athlete isn’t overly burdened with brains and the genius is better off sticking to the chess board rather than the diving board. But consider this; world-class athletes are careful about anything that impacts their performance.

The brainiac may indeed perform better in the classroom than on the tennis court, but could it be that she would perform even better in the classroom if she spent more time on the tennis court? (1) Swaminathan, Nikhil. 2014. . (2) Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov,. 2014. . © Cody Blair, All Rights Reserved. Raymond Lull's memory training and self learning tools. Welcome to the Mnemosyne Project | The Mnemosyne Project.

Study Software allows you to learn faster by organizing exam notes as concept maps and testing you to improve your study technique. By pushing visual learning with testing, this education software optimizes study method. Flash cards | Study Prof. [hidepost]Flash cards are a powerful tool to help you memorize things such as vocabulary, mathematical formulas, history facts, and spelling.

Here are some strategies to help you get the most from your flash cards. Use flashcards in several different colors. Use each color as a cue to help recall something about the fact on that flash card. For example, if you are using the flash cards to memorize vocabulary words, use a different color for words that have different connotations. Positive words–such as benign, sagacious, and staunch–could go on green or blue 3×5 cards. Negative words–such as mendacious ,stultify, and malevolent–might go on red or yellow 3×5 cards. Neutral words–like rebuttal, soporific, and nominal–could go on white or tan cards. Illustrate and embellish the cards. Carry the cards around with you and review them whenever you have a chance; at the stoplight, before class, in the line at the grocery store or the bank, on long trips, or walking across campus.

[/hidepost] Super Memory. Braille Through Remote Learning. Fundamentals of Piano Practice: Preface. This is the first book ever written on how to practice at the piano! The revelation of this book is that there are highly efficient practice methods that can accelerate your learning rate, by up to 1,000 times if you have not yet learned the most efficient practice methods.

What is surprising is that, although these methods were known since the earliest days of piano, they were seldom taught because only a few teachers knew about them and these knowledgeable teachers never bothered to disseminate this knowledge. I realized in the 1960s that there was no good book on how to practice at the piano. The best I could find was Whiteside's book, which was an utter disappointment (see my review of this book in References). As a graduate student at Cornell University, studying until 2 AM just to keep up with some of the brightest students from all over the world, I had little time to practice piano. ". Why are these practice methods so revolutionary?

How to Memorize - Learn to memorize and increase memory. If you are visiting from StumbleUpon and like this article and tool, please consider giving it a thumbs up. Thanks! Memorizing does not have to be as hard as most people make it. The problem is that most people only know how to memorize by reading the same thing over and over again. You have to learn to memorize. In this article we are going to focus on a technique that will let you easily: Memorize a speechMemorize the BibleMemorize linesMemorize Scripture At the end of this article is a Javascript tool that makes it easy to implement this method.

Synapses and Neurons and How to Memorize In the simplified model of the brain in this discussion, we’ll be looking at neurons and synapses. When you remember something neurons fire signals down particular synapse pathways to other neurons which in turn fire signals to other neurons. Strong Pathways Synapses appear to exhibit plasticity. For example, consider remembering your home telephone number. THE WARBURG INSTITUTE: Giordano Bruno. Every scholar has a dream; and for those working on Giordano Bruno, surely among the most coveted is to have at their disposal the Bruno holdings of the Warburg Institute Library.

Today, thanks to the collaboration of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani ‘Giovanni Aquilecchia’ dell’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and the Warburg Institute, this dream is becoming a reality with the inauguration of the ‘Bibliotheca Bruniana Electronica’. What better way, then, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ‘Seminari Bruniani’, which since 1998 have taken place in the second week of June at the Warburg Institute. These meetings have enabled more than 100 funded students from various continents to engage with internationally renowned scholars and to consult the shelves on the 3rd floor of the Institute’s Library dedicated to works by and about Bruno. Nuccio OrdineFrançois Quiviger.

THE WARBURG INSTITUTE: Yates & Bruno's Mnemonics. `How did the system work? By magic of course, by being based on the central power station of the … images of the stars, closer to reality than the images of things of the sublunar world, transmitter of the astral forces, the `shadows’ intermediary between the ideal world above the stars and the objects and events in the lower world.’ (The Art of Memory, p. 223) This interpretation, based on a misplacing of the images of the planets, was first revised by Rita Sturlese in her critical edition of the De Umbris of 1991 (pp. LXVIII ff.) and later by Francesco Torchia (‘La chiave delle ombre’, Intersezioni, 1, 1997, pp. 131-151). Both scholars strip Bruno’s construction of its magical character. Thus you can remember the word numeratore through the following image composed by the combinatory wheel:`the god Apis weaving a rug and wearing rags with wood blocks on his feet, with, in the background, a woman stretching out her hands and riding an hydra with many heads.’

François Quiviger. Cosmos Rossellius. Cosmos Rossellius (died 1578) was a Florentine Dominican friar who wrote a book about memory. Theasurus artificosae memoria was published in Venice in 1579. He gives a Dante-esque description of hell as a memory space system[1] arranged around a well at the top of a flight of steps consisting of the punishments for heretics, Jews, idolators and hypocrites. In contrast heaven is depicted as the throne of Christ, surrounded by a celestial hierarchy of Apostles, Patriarchs, Prophets, Martyrs, Confessors, virgins, Holy Hebrews and an enormous array of saints.

He also advocates the use of the constellations as loci. He also discusses the visual alphabet[2] describing it as a digital alphabet, or a manual of signs for the fingers. The five woodcuts contain the earliest known representation of a digital sign language. Jump up ^ Auster, Paul (2005). Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes. (Photo: Dustin Diaz) How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time? Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period.

This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University in 1998 at a seminar called the “PX Project.” The below was written several years ago, so it’s worded like Ivy Leaguer pompous-ass prose, but the results are substantial. In fact, while on an airplane in China two weeks ago, I helped Glenn McElhose increase his reading speed 34% in less than 5 minutes. I have never seen the method fail. The PX Project The PX Project, a single 3-hour cognitive experiment, produced an average increase in reading speed of 386%. It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. The Protocol 1) Trackers and Pacers (to address A and B above)

Learn How To Speed Read. Speed Reading, Reading Software, and Better Reading Comprehension. Script-O Professional. Medical School Podcast » Blog Archive » 2 Study Techniques Training. Speed reading - reader comments -The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com. Learning, powered by imagination. - Memrise. How to Memorize a Shuffled Deck of Cards in Less Than 60 Seconds (Plus: $10,000 Challenge) (Photo credit: Jystyn ) To become a Grand Master of Memory–fewer than 100 in the world can claim that title–you need to satisfy each of the following in competitions approved by the World Memory Sport Council: • Memorize the order of 10 decks of cards in 60 minutes. • Memorize 1,000 random digits in 60 minutes. • Memorize the order of one deck of cards in less than two minutes. Ed Cooke first hit this trifecta when he was 23.

He later came to international attention when he coached journalist Joshua Foer from ground zero to U.S. Ed has memorized a shuffled deck of cards in competition in 43 seconds. I asked him if he’d open the kimono and explain his method, and he very graciously agreed. It takes around four hours to get comfortable with Ed’s best-of-breed system. (Im)practically speaking, it’s just freaking amazingly cool. Last but not least, there’s a $10,000 competition at the end if you want to really give this a shot… Step One: Learning the Cards The Suits (think: personalities): Memory Archives » Free Speed Reading. Photographic Memory Books Teach How To Recall Information There are many photographic memory books that essentially teach people techniques to improve their memory skills.

Photographic memory is often confused with eidetic memory, with which a person can study a picture for about 30 seconds and when the picture removed visualize the image. While an eidetic memory has been witnessed in children, with the image memory lasting a few minutes, it has not been successful found in adults. In most photographic memory books the techniques used are to help people develop memory skills, not through capturing a mental picture of what they see, but by learning certain tricks to make recalling the information possible. Whether they are looking at a picture, words of text or music, the ability to store that information into their memory is often thought of having a photographic memory. Not All Books Teach Same Memory Habits Use Association Techniques To Improve Memory Categories: Memory Tags: in-depth.

AccelaReader - Speed Reading Tool (RSVP Reader) Free Speed Reading Course. Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg. The Smartest Think Differently. Let Me Show You How. - HACK MY STUDY. Speed Reading Software Review - TopTenREVIEWS. Free online speed reading software | Spreeder.com. Etopia Ebook Reader pre beta presentation. Speed Reading Techniques: Learn How to Memorize Things Fast. This course will teach you how to hack your learning, reading, and memory skills, empowering you to learn anything and everything faster and more effectively. Whether you're a student, a professional, or simply embarking on a new hobby, you are forced to grapple with an every-increasing amount of information and knowledge. In fact, it's believed that one week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than people 100 years ago encountered in their entire lives. We've all experienced the frustration of an ever-growing reading list, struggling to learn a new language, or forgetting things you learned in even your favorite subjects.

Anyone can develop Super-Learning skills This course is about improving your ability to learn new skills or information quickly and effectively. We go far beyond the kinds of "speed-reading" (or glorified skimming) you may have been exposed to, diving into the actual cognitive and neurological factors that make learning easier and more successful. How to Memorize a Shuffled Deck of Cards in Less Than 60 Seconds (Plus: $10,000 Challenge) Speed reading - reader comments -The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com. Speed Reading101.