Memory Techniques

[libertyyne]

I recently finished reading Moonwalking with Einstien and thought some of the techniques might hold value in medical school . Has anyone had any experience using memory palace techniques and has that been beneficial for your retention and scores?

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[Cognovi]

 

[libertyyne]

I wonder what that dudes Step 1 score is.

 

[CherryRedDracul]

I wonder what that dudes Step 1 score is.

I heard it was "ERR" because it was too high to register.

 

[seekere]

Get the book Cognition by Matlin. DL it off libgen honestly. There's a chapter of memory strategies and their effectiveness as proven by the literature. It's chapter 6 I believe and not a hard read. I really don't like the method of loci which I believe is that memory palace thing your talking about.

 

[naijacardriodoc]

isn't this the premise behind sketchy and picmonic?

 

[libertyyne]

Get the book Cognition by Matlin. DL it off libgen honestly. There's a chapter of memory strategies and their effectiveness as proven by the literature. It's chapter 6 I believe and not a hard read. I really don't like the method of loci which I believe is that memory palace thing your talking about.

Yes, I was referring to the method of loci. Have you used memory techniques? Have they improved performance? Thanks I will check the book out.

 

[libertyyne]

isn't this the premise behind sketchy and picmonic?

I think some of it might be, the method of loci goes a step further and has you store the images in a physical location in your mind.

 

[operaman]

I dabbled with the loci thing when I read this book. While they do work well, I found the sheer volume and velocity of information too high to adequately build the memory palaces. i think the building memory palaces is quite a skill in itself and perhaps If someone were already adept then applying it to medical school would be much easier. For me, it just wasn’t effective enough fast enough to become part of my routine.

Personally I found and still find great success with spaced repetition tools. I liked picmonic in med school; sketchy hadn’t come out yet but I would have probably liked it too.

 

[libertyyne]

I dabbled with the loci thing when I read this book. While they do work well, I found the sheer volume and velocity of information too high to adequately build the memory palaces. i think the building memory palaces is quite a skill in itself and perhaps If someone were already adept then applying it to medical school would be much easier. For me, it just wasn’t effective enough fast enough to become part of my routine.

Personally I found and still find great success with spaced repetition tools. I liked picmonic in med school; sketchy hadn’t come out yet but I would have probably liked it too.

Thank you. I found myself coming to a similar conclusion regarding the volume / velocity of information and memory palaces.

 

[Cognovi]

Sketchy/Picmonic are forms of the keyword method, where objects that sound like the words to be memorized are made to interact. Method of loci/memory palace involves associating items to be memorized with ordered stops in a location. I think of of method of loci as a series of keyword-type mnemonics, which is most useful for memorize lengthy ordered information (eg, a set of cards).

The underlying principle is elaborating the word to be memorized (something new, abstract, or otherwise meaningless) with a visual (something concrete, already understandable, or otherwise meaningful) and then establishing an association with other information by having the concrete visuals interact.