Charan Ranganath

There's a school of thought that says that episodic memory evolved from this kind of knowledge of space and basically these primitive abilities to figure out where you are, and so people explain the method of loci that way. And whether or not the evolutionary argument is true, the method of loci is not at all special. So if you're not a good visualizer, stories are a good one.

There's a school of thought that says that episodic memory evolved from this kind of knowledge of space and basically these primitive abilities to figure out where you are, and so people explain the method of loci that way. And whether or not the evolutionary argument is true, the method of loci is not at all special. So if you're not a good visualizer, stories are a good one.

There's a school of thought that says that episodic memory evolved from this kind of knowledge of space and basically these primitive abilities to figure out where you are, and so people explain the method of loci that way. And whether or not the evolutionary argument is true, the method of loci is not at all special. So if you're not a good visualizer, stories are a good one.

So a lot of memory athletes will use stories and they'll go like, if you're memorizing a deck of cards, they have a little code for the different, like the king and the jack and the 10 and so forth. And they'll make up a story about things that they're doing and that'll work.

So a lot of memory athletes will use stories and they'll go like, if you're memorizing a deck of cards, they have a little code for the different, like the king and the jack and the 10 and so forth. And they'll make up a story about things that they're doing and that'll work.

So a lot of memory athletes will use stories and they'll go like, if you're memorizing a deck of cards, they have a little code for the different, like the king and the jack and the 10 and so forth. And they'll make up a story about things that they're doing and that'll work.

songs are a great one right i mean it's like uh i can still remember there's this obscure episode of the tv show cheers they sing a song about albania that he uses to memorize all these facts about albania and i could still sing that song to you it's it's just i saw it on a tv show you know

songs are a great one right i mean it's like uh i can still remember there's this obscure episode of the tv show cheers they sing a song about albania that he uses to memorize all these facts about albania and i could still sing that song to you it's it's just i saw it on a tv show you know

songs are a great one right i mean it's like uh i can still remember there's this obscure episode of the tv show cheers they sing a song about albania that he uses to memorize all these facts about albania and i could still sing that song to you it's it's just i saw it on a tv show you know

Oh, yeah. If I'm trying to memorize something, let's say if I have an hour to memorize as many Spanish words as I can, if I just try to do like half an hour and then later in the day I do half an hour, I won't retain that information as long as if I do half an hour today and half an hour one week from now. And so doing that extra spacing... should help me retain the information better.

Oh, yeah. If I'm trying to memorize something, let's say if I have an hour to memorize as many Spanish words as I can, if I just try to do like half an hour and then later in the day I do half an hour, I won't retain that information as long as if I do half an hour today and half an hour one week from now. And so doing that extra spacing... should help me retain the information better.

Oh, yeah. If I'm trying to memorize something, let's say if I have an hour to memorize as many Spanish words as I can, if I just try to do like half an hour and then later in the day I do half an hour, I won't retain that information as long as if I do half an hour today and half an hour one week from now. And so doing that extra spacing... should help me retain the information better.

Now, there's an interesting boundary condition, which is it depends on when you need that information. So many of us, for me, I can't remember so much from college and high school because I crammed, because I just did everything at the last minute. And sometimes I would literally study in the hallway right before the test, and that was great.

Now, there's an interesting boundary condition, which is it depends on when you need that information. So many of us, for me, I can't remember so much from college and high school because I crammed, because I just did everything at the last minute. And sometimes I would literally study in the hallway right before the test, and that was great.

Now, there's an interesting boundary condition, which is it depends on when you need that information. So many of us, for me, I can't remember so much from college and high school because I crammed, because I just did everything at the last minute. And sometimes I would literally study in the hallway right before the test, and that was great.

Because what would happen is, is I just had that information right there. And so actually not spacing can really help you if you need it very quickly, right? But the problem is, is that you tend to forget it later on. But on the other hand, if you space things out, you get a benefit for later on retention. And so there's many different explanations. We have a computational model of this.

Because what would happen is, is I just had that information right there. And so actually not spacing can really help you if you need it very quickly, right? But the problem is, is that you tend to forget it later on. But on the other hand, if you space things out, you get a benefit for later on retention. And so there's many different explanations. We have a computational model of this.

Because what would happen is, is I just had that information right there. And so actually not spacing can really help you if you need it very quickly, right? But the problem is, is that you tend to forget it later on. But on the other hand, if you space things out, you get a benefit for later on retention. And so there's many different explanations. We have a computational model of this.

It's currently under revision. But in our computer model, what we say is that maybe a good way of thinking about this is this conversation that you and I are having. it's associated with a particular context, a particular place in time. And so all of these little cues that are in the background, these little guitar sculptures that you have and that big light umbrella thing, right?

It's currently under revision. But in our computer model, what we say is that maybe a good way of thinking about this is this conversation that you and I are having. it's associated with a particular context, a particular place in time. And so all of these little cues that are in the background, these little guitar sculptures that you have and that big light umbrella thing, right?