Lifehacker reader Will writes in with a memorization system he picked up while taking an art class that required him to remember long dates attached to paintings. Using a "Red Table" of mnemonic sound ...

What is the effect of music on eighth-graders numerical memory? I am an eighth-grader at Central Middle School. For an assignment, I designed and conducted a controlled science experiment to ...

As we've noted before here on Business Hacks, a quick recall is often an important asset in business. Not only does memorizing a bunch of names of people you just met make them feel happy, they might ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

Do you want to improve your short-term memory? Do you want to remember names, faces, important details — basically anything — more reliably and much more easily? (Or, if you’re like me, do you just ...

That means, for each number between 00 and 99 (or even 000 to 999) a memory athlete has a specific image that always represents that number. One way to come up with these images is the phonetic ...