Learning Maps and Memory Skills

by Svantesson, Ingemar

• ISBN13: 9780749441289
• ISBN10: 0749441283
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Summary

Are you tired of wading through pages of notes to find the information you want? Do you need to improve your creative thinking? Do you find it difficult to decipher the notes you have taken during a meeting? Learning maps could be the answer to your problems. They are an immensely valuable note-taking technique that can improve your memory, save you time, and help with creative thinking. This revised second edition is packed with exercises that can help you to monitor your progress in both learning maps and memory training. Simple and straightforward, it can help anyone to dramatically improve his or her recall and note taking.

Author Biography

Ingemar Svantesson is a leading lecturer on learning maps and memory skills

Table of Contents

background	v
how to use this book	vi
what is a learning map?	1	(3)
...and why should you use it?	1	(3)
getting started	4	(2)
`ordinary' note taking	6	(3)
too much and no system	6	(3)
keywords	9	(6)
in a nutshell	11	(1)
the `right' word	12	(1)
levels in the language	13	(2)
the human brain	15	(10)
the unknown brain	17	(1)
where do ideas come from?	18	(3)
brainstorming	21	(1)
laboratory intelligence and intelligence in the wild	22	(3)
learning maps	25	(22)
the use of keywords	29	(3)
on a memory hunt	32	(2)
the natural way	34	(1)
your own writing and speech	35	(7)
style	42	(2)
rules	44	(3)
other people's texts	47	(7)
making an overview	48	(6)
using learning maps	54	(8)
text 1: fasting	56	(3)
text 2: McDonald's	59	(3)
what is the memory?	62	(12)
the brain as a hologram	63	(1)
memory patterns	63	(1)
in the beginning there was an image	64	(1)
does memory degenerate with increasing age?	64	(4)
the `von Restorff effect'	68	(1)
one day is like the pearl...	69	(1)
learning with motivation	70	(1)
different types of memory	70	(1)
the threads of memory	71	(2)
in a nutshell	73	(1)
mnemonics	74	(14)
the story of Simonides	75	(2)
logic and imagination	77	(1)
associations	78	(3)
rhyme and reason	81	(3)
go for a memory walk	84	(1)
links forming a chain	85	(2)
in a nutshell	87	(1)
learning maps applications	88	(12)
study planning	88	(1)
`the Swiss cheese method'	89	(2)
personal planning	91	(2)
supporting a diary with learning maps	93	(1)
meetings	94	(1)
budgets	95	(1)
learning maps in business and financial analysis	96	(4)
learning maps: summary	100	(2)
select bibliography	102	(2)
puzzle solution	104	(1)
memory exercise	105	(1)
further reading from Kogan Page	106