In the 1970's a product called The Trent Plan - a guide to improving
memory by association - was for sale in the UK, but was withdrawn
after bad publicity on a programme called That's Life. Is it still
available in any form please, and if not what is the most succesful
memory product on the market on word association?
Hi,
I spent quite a long time searching for your original request, and
couldn't find any sign of the system on the Internet or off. This
didn't surprise me much as the system, as you say, went out of print
in the 1970s and the Internet as we know it today didn't really get
going until the 1990s. So unless it made a huge hole in the ground
when it crashed, it would not be mentioned.
I did read quite a bit on the word association technique. There is a
great deal of information on the internet regarding this subject, and
I have several links below which will help you in learning how, and
why, and the what level of effectiveness you can expect from
practicing this system of memory improvement.
"Your Memory" by Kenneth Higbee
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1569246297/ref=pd_sbs_b_1/102-3144112-5116951?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Has several good reviews and appears to be the best book on the
subject at the present time with the least amount of self-hype.
http://psychology.byu.edu/facultyStaff/KennethHigbee.html
Apparently you want to stay away from Kevin Trudeau's books
(http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0323064.htm ), as they seem to be more
hype than meat.
Below you will also find several systems which are on the Internet
which came recommended by various resources, some of which I've used
myself and felt that they certainly were not a waste of time. After a
couple of them you will find that they are all based on similar themes
of improvement and the usage of word association and similar mnemonic
training. The ideas have been around for many years (as the method of
loci is at least from the 17th century is not ancient Greece). This
doesn't lessen their effectiveness at all, and I find practicing the
system from different angles improves my ability to make use of the
system.
Reference Links
Sense Think Act
http://www.sense-think-act.org/index.php/Main_Page
Naked Science Memory Course by Michael Curtis
http://www.nakedscience.com/
Online Memory Improvement Course
http://memory.uva.nl/memimprovement/eng/
2Know (English Version) Memory Improvement Training Course (free software download)
http://got2know.net/2Know/index.html
Tips on Boosting Your Memory Power
http://www.mtilink.com/news/articles/boost.asp
UEA Norwich offers a .pdf article on Memory Training for students.
Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download -
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)
UEA Norwich Dean of Students Office - Memory Training
http://www.uea.ac.uk/dos/learning/toolkit/Memory/memory.PDF
NASA Human Factors - 5 Memory Games
http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/index.html
Method of loci
http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/loci.html
The word association methodology - a gateway to work-task based retrieval
http://ewic.bcs.org/conferences/1999/mira99/papers/paper6.pdf
Brain/Memory Research
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~gurney/BrainRes.html
Memory Improvement Techniques from Mind Tools
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_TIM.htm
Association for the Promotion of Creative Learning
http://www.creativelearningpatna.org/index.html?child/memory
Memory Improvement and Learning Skills
http://www.happychild.org.uk/acc/tpr/mem/
Related information of possible Interest
Journal of Neurolinguistics
Word association norms for two cohorts of British adults
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2001/ling001/word_association.html
Memory -- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory
Word Association Thesaurus
http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk/
Word Association Org
http://www.wordassociation.org/
If you have further questions on this subject, please feel free to use
the Clarification Request function.
thanks,
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