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One thing I never quite understood: would these exercises also improve your memory when you're not using the techniques explicitly? Somehow having the informati
by swah 11y ago
One thing I never quite understood: would these exercises also improve your memory when you're not using the techniques explicitly? Somehow having the information organized in your mind in a more cohesive manner, so that recall is always possible by traversing the graph...
- walterbell 11y agoYes. It's like learning a new language, which changes how concepts are represented. Or increasing your vocabulary and improving your writing, which then influences thinking. Moving beyond the alphabet to additional symbols, opens up new options for both representation/storage and pointers/indexing. Eventually, images come to mind without awareness of the retrieval process. The slow part then becomes translating the images back into alphabet-based language, for communicating with other people.