Impact de l’apprentissage de la lecture sur le cerveau Pour la première fois, des images détaillées de l'impact de l'apprentissage de la lecture sur le cerveau ont été obtenues par une équipe internationale de chercheurs. En comparant l'activité cérébrale d'adultes analphabètes avec celle de personnes alphabétisées durant l'enfance ou à l'âge adulte ces chercheurs ont démontré l'emprise massive (Le mot massif peut être employé comme :) de la lecture sur les aires visuelles du cerveau (Le cerveau est le principal organe du système nerveux central des animaux. Le cerveau traite les informations en provenance des sens, contrôle de nombreuses...) ainsi que sur celles utilisées pour le langage parlé. Coordonnée par Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France, Unité CEA-Inserm-Université Paris (Paris est une ville française, capitale de la France et le chef-lieu de la région d’Île-de-France. Pour cela, ils ont mesuré, par IRM fonctionnelle (En mathématiques, le terme fonctionnelle se réfère à certaines fonctions. Notes: Référence:
Remembering Numbers - The Phonetic Number System to Easily Memorize Numbers Remembering numbers is hard. But if you want to build a great memory, you need a way to memorize them. Fortunately, there is a memory trick you can use for long numbers. Why is remembering numbers important? If the presentation includes sales figures and statistics, would you rather shuffle through papers or amaze everyone by spitting out the numbers from memory? That's just one example, but if you need to remember passwords, phone extensions, mathematical constants, street addresses, product codes, Bible verses, or anything else numeric, then invest some time learning the Phonetic Number system. Phonetic Number System The Phonetic Number system is a substitute alphabet for changing numbers to letters. For example, if I asked you to memorize the phrase, "Four score and seven years ago", you could easily do it. Now try memorizing the 30-digit number "8567 13543 887 54365 23678 369". Number to Letter Conversion Here is the conversion table. One more point. How to Use the Method
Improve Your Memory by Speaking Your Mind’s Language By learning the language your mind uses, you’ll be able to tap into your mind’s full potential and develop a remarkable memory. It’s easier than you think – and you’ll actually have fun doing it. Your Mind Thinks in Pictures Along its evolution, the brain has become amazingly effective in dealing with sensory data. It is by correctly interpreting the five senses that the mind understands the environment and takes decisions. Among the human senses, sight has become the most sophisticated and developed of all. Imagery is the real language of the mind. If I ask you to think about a horse, what comes to your mind? Visual Thinking and Memory To fully illustrate the astonishing effect that images have on your memory, let’s walk through a basic memorization technique called memory pegging. Before getting to the technique, let me give you a simple challenge: memorize a groceries list of ten items. baconeggswinebatteriesbubble gummilkenvelopesspinachcoffeetomato Learning Your Mind’s Basic Vocabulary
Memory Improvement Techniques - Improve Your Memory with MindTools © VeerPRZEMYSLAW PRZYBYLSKI Use these techniques to improve your memory. The tools in this section help you to improve your memory. They help you both to remember facts accurately and to remember the structure of information. The tools are split into two sections. As with other mind tools, the more practice you give yourself with these techniques, the more effectively you will use them. Mnemonics 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently – as words printed on a page. This section of Mind Tools shows you how to use all the memory resources available to you to remember information in a highly efficient way.
Mon (et votre) cerveau raciste Associer minorités et criminalité est irrationnel, injuste et... parfaitement normal. Le journaliste Juan Williams a déclaré au présentateur Bill O'Reilly [NDLE: polémiste très conservateur travaillant à Fox News] que voir des musulmans dans les aéroports le rendait nerveux. Ce qui lui a valu sans ambages d’être taxé de sectarisme [NDLE: et d’être limogé par la radio NPR]. Mais l’association faite par Williams entre innocents musulmans et les auteurs des attentats du 11-Septembre avait moins à voir avec le sectarisme —en tout cas, tel qu’il est d’usage de le définir— qu’avec le fonctionnement normal de son cerveau. Si vous vivez aux États-Unis à l’ère post-11-Septembre et que vous ne faites pas un minimum de lien entre musulmans et terrorisme, quelque chose ne tourne pas rond chez vous. Je ne suis pas en train de dire qu’il est rationnel ou juste d’associer musulmans ordinaires et terroristes. Imaginez que vous avez mal au ventre... L'inhabituel et la minorité L'irrationnel Shankar Vedantam
The Major System Peg Words One of the really poweful uses of the Major System is as a sort of memory pegboard. As part of your Major System, you create a list of 100 peg words that can then be used as memory hooks to 'hang' anything on. As with virtually all memory work, it works by association. In other words, once you're familiar with your peg words (really familiar, that is!), they become incredibly useful to you, because you can then associate things with the pegs, just as though you're hanging them on memory hooks on a pegboard. And because you know where the memory hooks are, the items are easy to find! Oh, and did I mention that the hooks are all numbered? Since you're going to create little mental images (or mental videos) of these things, that's what they should be ... things! I'm giving you a list of 100 memory peg words that conform to the 100 numbers from zero to ninety-nine, but you don't have to use them. How to create good peg words head, and playing a lute or some such instrument.
Printable Flash Cards for Vocabulary Words-with Photographs Sluggish Sluggish audio/easy/sluggish.mp3 adjective lacking energy; inactive Our cat is sluggish during the day. sluggish.jpg Gush Gush audio/easy/gush.mp3 verb to flow out forcefully, often in large amounts Water gushed down the waterfall. gush.jpg Predicament Predicament audio/easy/predicament.mp3 noun a difficult situation The animal was left in a predicament. predicament.jpg Weary Weary physically or mentally exhausted The programmer was so weary that he fell asleep on the job. weary.jpg Ruffle Ruffle audio/easy/ruffle.mp3 to raise (feathers) The macaw ruffled its feathers. ruffle.jpg Expedition Expedition audio/easy/expedition.mp3 a journey or voyage made for a specific purpose The scientists made an expedition to Alaska to study wildlife. expedition.jpg Wrath Wrath fierce anger I was the victim of his wrath. wrath.jpg Grove Grove audio/easy/grove.mp3 a group of trees without undergrowth We came across a small grove. grove.jpg Hulking Hulking audio/easy/hulking.mp3 so large as to appear clumsy A hulking rhino stood before me. Immerse
to make nearly all course materials available free on the World Wide Web CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT President Charles M. Vest has announced that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will make the materials for nearly all its courses freely available on the Internet over the next ten years. He made the announcement about the new program, known as MIT OpenCourseWare (MITOCW), at a press conference at MIT on Wednesday, April 4. President Vest focused on how OpenCourseWare reflected the idealism of the MIT faculty and the core educational mission of MIT in his remarks to print and television reporters. "As president of MIT, I have come to expect top-level innovative and intellectually entrepreneurial ideas from the MIT community. When we established the Council on Educational Technology at MIT, we charged a sub-group with coming up with a project that reached beyond our campus classrooms. "I have to tell you that we went into this expecting that something creative, cutting-edge and challenging would emerge. "OpenCourseWare is not exactly what I had expected.
Mnemonic major system The Major System (also called the phonetic number system, phonetic mnemonic system, or Herigone's mnemonic system) is a mnemonic technique used to aid in memorizing numbers. The system works by converting numbers into consonant sounds, then into words by adding vowels. The system works on the principle that images can be remembered more easily than numbers. The system[edit] Each numeral is associated with one or more consonants. The groups of similar sounds and the rules for applying the mappings are almost always fixed, but other hooks and mappings can be used as long as the person using the system can remember them and apply them consistently. Each numeral maps to a set of similar sounds with similar mouth and tongue positions. For most people it would be easier to remember 3.1415927 (an approximation of the mathematical constant pi) as: Short term visual memory of imagined scenes allows large numbers of digits to be memorized with ease, though usually only for a short time. History[edit]
Numbers Near Multiples Of Ten It's fairly easy to multiply two numbers that are close to the same multiple of 10. The algorithm for doing it is called “Nikhilam Navatascaramam Dasata.” It is part of a system of algorithms and mnemonics to remember them, collectively known as “Vedic Math”, that was developed by Jagadguru Swami Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaj in the early 20th century. The easiest way to explain the algorithm is to give examples, and explain the algorithm along the way. 7 x 8 First find a suitable “base”. base 10 7 | -3 x 8 | -2 Multiply the differences. -3 x -2 = 6. base 10 7 | -3 x 8 | -2 ________ | 6 Now add the difference between the one number to be multiplied and 10, to the other number to be multiplied. Put the result on the left side of the answer: base 10 7 | -3 x 8 | -2 ________ 5 | 6 7 x 8 = 56 Now let's try it with significantly bigger numbers, to see why this is such an advantage. 98 x 89 ____ Since both numbers are close to 100, we will use 100 as our base. 10200 + (-08) = 10192 104 x 98 = 10192