https://padlet.com/sharminiqbalmoni/65g1k4vti0dhgv1k "Feats of memory anyone can do" by J. Foer en-us 2022-09-03 19:13:08 UTC 2025-11-11 19:23:38 UTC hello@padlet.com sharminiqbalmoni https://padlet.com/sharminiqbalmoni/65g1k4vti0dhgv1k/wish/2281629358 1. They made easier for us to externalise our memories
2. They changed us cognitively
3. We don't need to remember anymore
4. We forgot how to remember

2. What did the University College of London want to find out by gathering "memory champions"?[2]
1. Do they have different brain

3. What did they find out about the controlled subjects?[2]
1. They were not smarter
2. They scanner their brains and found out that different parts were lightening up when they used spatial memory/navigation

4. What was Ben Pridmore trying to achieve?(Give one example)[2]
1. Memorise 36 stacks of shuffled packs of cards in one hour
2. Memorise the sequence of 4140 binary digits in 30 minutes

5. What is "elaborative encoding"?[2]
Memory tricks and techniques that put information in context so it means something to us and is easier to remember. ]]> 2022-09-03 19:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sharminiqbalmoni/65g1k4vti0dhgv1k/wish/2281629358 sharminiqbalmoni https://padlet.com/sharminiqbalmoni/65g1k4vti0dhgv1k/wish/2281634743 1. It is easier to remember a meaningful concept
2. "Baker" (name) - means nothing, lacking context
3. a baker (who bakes) - more familiar/easier to associate with meaningful in the mind

7. What does the baker/ Baker paradox prove?[2]
We remember better something that is meaningful for us and has a context.
8. What is the idea behind the "memory palace"?[2]
We have good spatial/ visual memory so we create a place where we can place thing and remember them (can be any place that is familiar to us).
9. How did Roman orators remember their speeches?[2]
1. "Topic by topic"  (topic sentence - TOPOS = place)
2. They thought in terms of places
3. (they created their own "memory places")
10. What does the phrase "in the first place" refer to?[2]
In the first place of your "memory palace".]]> 2022-09-03 19:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sharminiqbalmoni/65g1k4vti0dhgv1k/wish/2281634743 sharminiqbalmoni https://padlet.com/sharminiqbalmoni/65g1k4vti0dhgv1k/wish/2281641353 Ans: Distraction

12. We remember better when we: [4]
1. Pay attention
2. Are deeply engaged
3. Experience and figure out why it is meaningful for us
4. Are able to transform the information so it makes sense to us

13. According to the speaker, what do you need to do in order to live a memorable life?[2]
Ans: Be the kind of person who "remember to remember".

14. What does it mean?[2]
1. Be the kind of person who pays attention to trying to remember around more and pays attention to what is happening around them.
2. Our lives are the sum of our memories so we need to pay attention them.

15. What is the main point of the talk?[2]
1. We can all have good memory, we just need to know how to make things memorable
2. We can all create our own "memorable palaces"
3. Be the kind of person who "remember to remember". ]]> 2022-09-03 20:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sharminiqbalmoni/65g1k4vti0dhgv1k/wish/2281641353