The method of loci (or the loci technique) is a mnemonic memorization trick with a number of uses, from helping people with ...

I’ve spent months compiling great study and memorization techniques—and most of these study methods work best when you're ...

Although mnemonic devices far predate the written word, both Cicero and Quintilian name Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BCE) as the first teacher of an art of memory. Simonides is perhaps best known for ...

Are these incredible feats possible because of some rare brain difference in those that accomplish them? Nope, explains a fascinating recent Big Think article. Memory athletes aren’t genetically ...