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 ...

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 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 ...

I used to have a half a million phone numbers in my head and can still rattle a bunch of them off to people that have probably long since moved from that number. However, now that I have had home ...

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 ...