The Memory Palace: How the Method of Loci Actually Works
Placing images along a familiar route beats rehearsal for remembering lists in order. How the memory palace works, the evidence, and its limits.

Placing images along a familiar route beats rehearsal for remembering lists in order. How the memory palace works, the evidence, and its limits.

How memories form, in plain terms: encoding, consolidation and retrieval, what sleep and exercise do, and which study methods have the strongest evidence.