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INTELLIGENT MEMORY --- IMPROVE THE MEMORY THAT MAKES YOU SMARTER
by Barry Gordon and Lisa Berger. Viking, 2003

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (vii-viii)

INTRODUCTION (pxi-xv)


1) What Is Intelligent Memory? (p1-10)


[1] Picking Up Where Ordinary Memory Leaves Off 13

[2] How It Works 14

[3] Three Parts of the Engine 17

[4] Becoming a Better Thinker 19


2) Testing Your Intelligent Memory Attention (p11-42)


[1] Scratch-Pad Memory 116

[2] Memory Storage 121

[3] Connections 126

[4] Problem Solving 130

[5] Mental Mistakes 135

[6] Your Score 140


3) Improving Your Intelligent Memory (p43-48)


[1] Enhancing Attention 144

[2] Expanding Scratch-Pad Memory 145

[3] Coring More Memories 145

[4] Sparking Connections 146

[5] Solving Problems 146

[6] Working Creatively 146

[7] Preventing Mental Mistakes 147


4) Enhancing Attention Focusing (p149)


[1] Thoughts Training Abstracts

[2] Familiarity Helps 151

[3] Attention Lapses 152

[4] The Attention Bottleneck 153

[5] Automatic Attention 156

[6] Exercises 161


5) Expanding Scratch-Pad Memory


[1] How Good Is Your Scratch-Pad Memory? 169

[2] Word Recall Test 70

[3] Digit Span Test 71

[4] Chunking 174

[5] Making Tight Chunks 177

[6] Exploring Possible Patterns 178

[7] Reassembling for Meaning 179

[8] Finding Models 180

[9] Exercises 181


6) Storing More Memories (p187)


[1] Limitless Space 188

[2] Familiar Company 190

[3] Elaboration 192

[4] Elaborating for Meaning 195

[5] Redundant Locations 196

[6] Visualizing and Mnemonics 197

[7] Repeating and Rehearsing 199

[8] Spaced Practice 100

[9] Your Brain's Second Shift 102

[10] Exercises 102


7) Sparking Connections (p107)


[1] Do You Make Connections? (p107)

[2] What's So Funny? (p109)

[3] Building Better Connections (p110)

[4] Stretch for Novelty (p112)

[5] Forming a "web" with Analogies (p113)

[6] A Long, Loose Chain (p118)

[7] Giant Steps with Bainstorming (p119)

[8] Incubating for Creative Connections (p120)

[9] Exercises (p122)


8) Solving Problems (p129)


[1] The Nature of Problems (p129)

[2] Looking for Solutions (p137)

[3] Learning from Looking (p139)

[4] Ways of Thinking (p141)

[5] Checking a Solution (p148)

[6] Exercises (p149)


9) Working Creatively (p157)


[1] Making Great Leaps (p158)

[2] Inside the Artistic Mind (p159)

[3] Lessons for Making Creative Connections (p162)

[4] Exercises (p163)


10) Preventing Mental Mistakes (p165)


[2] Generalizing to a Wrong Conclusion (p165)

[2] Faulty Connections (p166)

[3] The Value of Slower Thinking (p168)

[4] Expect Fallibility (p770)

[5] The Perils of Pressured Thinking (p171)

[6] Good Solution but Wrong Mental Process (p171)

[7] Applying Likelihood and Odds (p173)

[8] Testing Conclusions (p174)

[8] Listening to Common Sense (p175)

[9) Rethinking a Problem (p177)

[10] Exercises (p179)


11) Ideas for Using Intelligent Memory (p183)


[1] At Home (p184)

[2] At Work (p189)

[3] At Leisure (p199)


12) Your Intelligent Memory Plan (p203)


NOTES AND SOURCES (p209-219)

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