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    The method of loci is a strategy for memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information...
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  • would inspect certain figures as part of the method of loci in order to imprint, store, and retrieve knowledge of certain subjects such as the seven liberal...
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  • of fiction or non-fiction. The term is derived from the term mnemonic, which refers to a strategy to support remembering (such as the method of loci or...
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  • spatially, semantically or acoustically. The method of loci (MOL) relies on spatial relationships between "loci" (e.g., locations on a familiar route or rooms...
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    The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus or Socratic debate) is a form of argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and...
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  • Locus (redirect from Loci)
    rhetorical topos, a method of constructing an argument Locus of control, the degree to which people have control over events Method of loci, a mnemonic system...
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  • The method of loci: The method of loci is a strategy for memorizing new information. It is a mnemonic device that involves the visualization of placing...
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  • bundling or by using either the peg system or the method of loci. Memory sport Art of Memory Method of loci Goroawase System Major system Dominic system Bremer...
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  • as a method of generating the pegs. It can also be combined with other memory techniques such as rhyming, substitute words, or the method of loci. Repetition...
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  • loci. In this method, in a backcross, one may calculate a t-statistic to compare the averages of the two marker genotype groups. For other types of crosses...
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  • visual and emotive. The Method of loci or mind palace, a technique for memorizing practiced since classical antiquity which is a type of mnemonic link system...
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    Andi Bell (category Place of birth missing (living people))
    (born 1972) is a three-time winner of the World Memory Championships. He used a method similar to method of loci. "The amazing memory man". BBC News...
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  • mostly the method of loci. This includes all winners of the annual World Memory Championships and most of the known scientific cases of excellent memories...
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    paraclausithyron, lament before the closed door of the lover; the commutatio loci; elixir of eternal youth; the Fountain of Youth; the topos modestiæ; pretending...
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    arguing for the sake of conflict, as opposed to resolving conflict. Eristic was a type of "question-and-answer" teaching method popularized by the Sophists...
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  • ability Shereshevsky might have had and mnemonic techniques like the method of loci and number shapes that "S" described. Shereshevsky also participated...
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  • One of the techniques taught as late as the 1950s in Britain was the Method of loci, recorded since ancient Roman rhetoric, to remember 20 or 100 items...
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    figures of speech constitute the latter. Figures of speech are traditionally classified into schemes, which vary the ordinary sequence of words, and...
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    A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely...
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    Ancient peoples used elaborate systems, such as the method of loci, to store large amounts of information in their memories. Today, we use literate...
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    The modes of persuasion, modes of appeal or rhetorical appeals (Greek: pisteis) are strategies of rhetoric that classify a speaker's or writer's appeal...
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  • Exceptional memory (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from December 2019)
    distinguish between "natural" abilities and his use of the method of loci. There are several anecdotal reports of "S" recalling a speech word for word without...
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    Maladaptive daydreaming – Trait associated with some mental disorders Method of loci – Memory techniques adopted in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises...
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    by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position. The practice of such argumentation is called polemics, which are seen in arguments on controversial...
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  • disequilibrium (LD) is a measure of non-random association between segments of DNA (alleles) at different positions on the chromosome (loci) in a given population...
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    moment'. In modern Greek, kairos also means 'weather' or 'time'. It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for 'time'; the other being chronos...
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    Eulogy (category Acknowledgements of death)
    writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired, or as a term of endearment. Eulogies may be given as part of funeral services...
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    "linkage disequilibrium mapping", is a method of mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that takes advantage of historic linkage disequilibrium to link...
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  • self-learning or using the Method of Loci. Each group was subsequently given the same assessment on the learned information and the Method of Loci group performed...
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    would constantly use the phrase "the brotherhood of man, under the fatherhood of God" toward the end of his speeches during his multiple bids for the Republican...
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