Learning faster
Accelerated learning
Highly recommended book: Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life (Book summaries: Limitless - Book Summary and Limitless by Jim Kwik - Full Summary and Limitless — Book Summary and Application and Limitless - Book Summary
Other books on accelerated learning: Amazon books on accelerated learning
Accelerated learning videos
Accelerated learning - playlist 2 (another person created this, some duplicate)
Accelerated learning and foreign languages
Accelerated learning and coding
Accelerated learning course
Jim Kwik - memory coach and accelerated learning
Video reviews of the book Limitless:
Memory improvement
Highly recommended books:
Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive by Kevin Horsely
Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It by Kenneth Higbee
The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas
The Memory Book: How to Remember Anything You Want by Tony Buzan and James Harrison
Master Your Memory: Millennium Edition by Tony Buzan
Use Your Perfect Memory: Dramatic New Techniques for Improving Your Memory; Third Edition by Tony Buzan
Article:
Resources:
World memory champion statistics
Articles:
Findings:
The top participants of the annual World Memory Championships regularly demonstrate the ability to memorize hundreds of words, digits, or other abstract information units within minutes.
Of the 23 athletes, 17 participated in a word learning task under fMRI conditions where they demonstrated their superior memory abilities compared to controls (70.8 ± 0.6 versus 39.9 ± 3.6 of 72 words correctly recalled 20 min after encoding; median, 72 versus 41; Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.001, r = 0.62).
Brain changes: "Memory skills strongly differ across the general population; however, little is known about the brain characteristics supporting superior memory performance. Here we assess functional brain network organization of 23 of the world’s most successful memory athletes and matched controls with fMRI during both task-free resting state baseline and active memory encoding. We demonstrate that, in a group of naive controls, functional connectivity changes induced by 6 weeks of mnemonic training were correlated with the network organization that distinguishes athletes from controls."
True to their name, the memory champions missed only two words on average when recalling the list 20 minutes later, whereas their controls missed nearly half.
Reading comprehension improvement
Reading comprehension strategies
6 strategies for greater reading comprehension by Jeffrey D Wilhelm
Visualization:
Strategic reading:
General books/DVDs:
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy by Tanya Baker, Julie Dube Hackett, Jeffrey D Wilhelm
Reading comprehension assessment and strategies
Metacognition strategies
Instruction of Metacognitive Strategies Enhances Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Achievement - Foreign languages, etc.
Problem solving skills
Creativity skills
Skill acquisition strategies and tactics
Skill acquisition strategies and tactics
Critical thinking
Favorite book on critical thinking
The Thinker's Way by John Chaffee, Ph.D., Little, Brown and Company; First Edition (October 1, 1998)
Favorite website dealing with thinking, critical thinking and logical fallacies
Logical fallacies
Creativity
Cognitive distortions/biases
Brain health and mental performance
IQ and reaction times and longevity and mood:
Apps:
IQ and fitness:
IQ and Omega 3 blood levels:
Combined effects of Omega 3 and exercise:
Salmon and sardines trump fish oil:
Mercury levels and fish:
Vegetable sources of DHA:
Brain nutrition:
Brain exercises
Brain workouts - better than coffee!:
BrainHQ (most heavily researched to show benefits)
Cognifit:
Cogmed:
Neuroplus:
Mindset:
3 Brain Control Device to Focus Invention Ideas you MUST have
12 cognitive tasks from Cambridge Brain Sciences:
12 cognitive tasks from Cambridge Brain Sciences
Others:
Fun mental workout software:
Brain health - brain exercises - free online tests[edit]
Stroop test online: