Rita J. King posted on LinkedIn with these tips on how to remember names.

Rita J. King posted on LinkedIn about Memory Layer's principles of memory as they apply to the memorability of advertisements. 

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Scientists trigger an entire memory in a mouse by stimulating just a few neurons with light. They used a process called optogenetics that provides control over a small subset of neurons on a millisecond time scale.

Oliver Sacks calls them "Brainworms" - those songs or jingles that you just can't get out of your head.

Put it in the category of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. "Photographic Memory" just doesn't exist.

Can you recall the vast majority of events in your life? You may have “hyperthymesia" like actress Marilu Henner.

Can't remember numbers? That's because our brains evolved to remember the location of food/water, tribe member faces, and dangerous animals. If it doesn't have survival value, your hippocampus will generally disregard the information.

Adjusted for total brain size, the hippocampus (our memory gateway) is larger in females than males.

Picking up milk after work? One simple way to help you remember is to imagine a crazy scene happening in your car related to milk. For example, you might imagine opening your car door and seeing (and smelling!) gallons of sour milk pour out, or picture a cow in the driver's seat with hooves on the wheel. When you get into your car after work your brain will trigger the memory to stop for milk. Or visualize a cow falling from a billboard that appears just before the grocery store on your way home. When you pass by the billboard your brain will likely remember the milk.

Here is a handy mnemonic device to remember the heads on Mount Rushmore - "We Just Like Rushmore". The first letter of each of those words starts the last name of the four presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt. Never miss that Trivial Pursuit question again!

A Canadian research center has published the strongest evidence yet that a smartphone training program, theory-driven and specifically designed for individuals with memory impairment, can result in “robust” improvements in day-to-day functioning, and boost independence and confidence levels.

Think memory improvement techniques are too difficult to master? Watch this adorable six year old girl using the Roman Room Method to remember all of the Presidents of the United States. She associates each name with a unique location in her apartment and then recalls the names by walking and looking at each of those locations.

Titan Arum - "Corpse Flower"