Archive for the ‘Memory Tricks’ Category

• Collaborative Inhibition: How Group Work Harms Memory

  By Saga Briggs

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  October 19th, 2016 No Comments Features, Memory Tricks

  Collaborating in a group to remember information can actually harm recall, according to new research from the University of Liverpool. The study, which was conducted by psychologists from both Liverpool and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), analysed 64 earlier studies on collaborative memory and provides the “first systematic investigation into the costs… Read More

• What’s Your Memory Style? 5 Ways to Accommodate the Way Your Brain Works

  By Saga Briggs

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  July 9th, 2016 4 Comments Features, Memory Tricks

  Not all memory is created equal. While some of us have detailed, context-dependent accounts of when and where we learned something, others seem to have a reserve of facts in their brain that they can pull from, independent of the original context in which they learned the information. Why does memory differ from person to… Read More