Don't swallow it whole! When someone gives you a phone number to remember, use 'chunking' as a way of remembering it. Short-term memory is limited so chunking helps us process long bits of information ...

The capacity of the short-term memory can be increased through a method called ‘chunking’. This involved breaking a larger piece of information into several smaller pieces. A good example of how we ...

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Students respond much better to manageable packages of information. Here Paul Moss explains why and how to go about ‘chunking’ online lectures to get the best results from students Bjork’s analogy ...

Remembering directions, holding on to phone numbers, and other tasks require your short-term memory. Tactical 'chunking' might give your memory that edge you've been looking for. Forming little memory ...

People may misremember events, often within seconds, and reshape memories to fit their expectations, according to a new study that sheds more light on such illusions in short-term memory. Previous ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory—the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it—coordinate intentional focus and ...

Scientists at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience discovered a parallel pathway for forming long-term memories that bypasses short-term memory. Using optogenetics, they blocked short-term ...