Picking Up Where Ordinary Memory Leaves Off
How It Works
Three Parts of the Engine
Becoming a Better Thinker
Testing Your Intelligent Memory
Attention
Scratch-Pad Memory
Memory Storage
Connections
Problem Solving
Mental Mistakes
Your Score
Improving Your Intelligent Memory
Enhancing Attention
Expanding Scratch-Pad Memory
Storing More Memories
Sparking Connections
Solving Problems
Working Creatively
Preventing Mental Mistakes
Enhancing Attention
Focusing
Familiarity Helps
Attention Lapses
The Attention Bottleneck
Automatic Attention
Expanding Scratch-Pad Memory
How Good Is Your Scratch-Pad Memory?
Word Recall Test
Digit Span Test
Chunking
Making Tight Chunks
Exploring Possible Patterns
Reassembling for Meaning
Finding Models
Storing More Memories
Limitless Space
Familiar Company
Elaboration
Elaborating for Meaning
Redundant Locations
Visualizing and Mnemonics
Repeating and Rehearsing
Spaced Practice
Your Brain's Second Shift
Sparking Connections
Do You Make Connections?
What's So Funny?
Building Better Connections
Stretch for Novelty
Forming a Web with Analogies
A Long, Loose Chain
Giant Steps with Brainstorming
Incubating for Creative Connections
Solving Problems
The Nature of Problems
Looking for Solutions
Learning from Looking
Ways of Thinking
Checking a Solution
Working Creatively
Making Great Leaps
Inside the Artistic Mind.