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title: "The Role of Memory in Learning"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Boris Nikolai Konrad"
resource_person_role: "Neuroscientist, memory researcher and competitive memory athlete"
vertical: "psychological-literacy"
module: "Basics of Educational Psychology"
lesson: "The Role of Memory in Learning"
lesson_key: "the-role-of-memory-in-learning"
source: "curated"
source_channel: "TEDx Talks"
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# The Role of Memory in Learning: Highlights

**Resource person:** Boris Nikolai Konrad - Neuroscientist, memory researcher and competitive memory athlete

**Curated from:** TEDx Talks

1. [01:23] Konrad proposes teaching mnemonic methods as an explicit learning skill.
2. [02:59] He attributes memory-athlete performance to practised techniques and discusses a six-week training study.
3. [03:41] Stored knowledge supports comprehension, comparison and the incubation of ideas.
4. [06:32] The case of H.M. illustrates that memory depends on several systems and distributed brain processes.
5. [08:50] Difficult material can be linked to vivid imagery, locations, sounds and associations.
6. [09:13] A linked story encodes the eight ordered ranks of biological taxonomy.
7. [11:53] Knowing that a mnemonic exists is insufficient; learners need practice using and retrieving from it.