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Memory Explained: 17 Types and How to Improve Them

Memory isn’t one skill but many. From sensory and short-term to visual, auditory, sequential, and more, each type plays a role in learning. This guide explains 17 forms of memory and how they can be improved through training.

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Aug 28, 2025Sue du Plessis
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What Is Visual Memory? Types, Importance, Improving

Visual memory helps us remember what we’ve seen — from words on a page to patterns and shapes. This article explores the types of visual memory, its vital role in reading, writing, math, and attention, and how it can be trained and improved.

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Jul 22, 2025Sue du Plessis
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4 Proven Ways to Improve Working Memory

Working memory is increasingly recognized as a crucial cognitive skill, and by improving our working memory, we can realize gains in key areas, from school to work to retirement. Here are a few ways to improve your child’s (or your own) working memory.

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Jan 22, 2025Sue du Plessis
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Short-Term Memory: What It Is, How It Works, Improving (Program Included)

Short-term memory holds a small amount of information in the mind for a few seconds. Short-term memory is limited to about seven items and will be lost in about fifteen seconds unless the information is rehearsed.

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Sep 15, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Long-Term Memory: What It Is, Types, Ways to Improve

Long-term memory is the memory process that takes information from the short-term memory store and creates long-lasting memories. Learn more about the types, stages, and how to improve.

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Jul 4, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Sequential Memory: Definition, Importance, Overcoming Deficits

Sequential memory requires items to be recalled in a specific order. In saying the days of the week, months of the year, a telephone number, the alphabet, and counting, the order of the elements is paramount.

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Jun 1, 2023Sue du Plessis
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16 Cognitive Skills that Matter, How to Improve Them

Cognitive skills, also called cognitive abilities, cognitive functions, or cognitive capabilities, are mental skills used in acquiring knowledge, manipulating information, reasoning, and problem-solving.

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May 6, 2023Sue du Plessis
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8 Reasons Why Working Memory Is Important

Working memory is key to learning. How good this is in someone will either ease their path to learning or seriously prevent them from learning. Here are eight ways children use working memory to learn.

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Apr 14, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Auditory Memory: Importance, Test, Overcoming Deficits

Auditory memory involves taking in information that is presented orally, processing that information, storing it in one’s mind, and then recalling what one has heard. Basically, it involves the skills of attending, listening, processing, storing, and recalling.

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Mar 30, 2023Sue du Plessis
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10 Brain Foods to Boost Memory and Concentration

Research on so-called “brain foods” shows that some chemicals in the foods we eat go right to our brain cells. These ten foods have shown to improve memory and concentration.

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Jan 13, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Memory Problems: Why Learning Techniques Are “Less Successful”

“Children, it’s almost time to go home. So please write down your homework, put your books away, and line up at the door.” Sounds simple and straightforward. So why is Johnny already lined up at the door when his books are all over his desk?

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Jan 9, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Theories of Forgetting: How and Why We Forget

Can you remember the name of your first grade teacher? Certainly the information was stored at one time ― the teacher was a central figure in your life for nearly a year. If you can’t recall the name, is it still somewhere in your long-term memory?

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Jan 4, 2023Sue du Plessis
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