The Secret of a Good MemoryD. Bogue, 1880 - 80 pages |
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... thought , and , taking - in or forming an idea , store it in the memory to be " recollected " at future periods either by accident or intention . When a voice is thrown into the receiving aperture of a phonograph , it sets a disc like a ...
... thought , and , taking - in or forming an idea , store it in the memory to be " recollected " at future periods either by accident or intention . When a voice is thrown into the receiving aperture of a phonograph , it sets a disc like a ...
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... thoughts are projected upon them , science has not yet been able to ascertain , but that they are in some way physically affected by every mental act is certain . Whatever we hear , see , or think , produces an impression , wholly ...
... thoughts are projected upon them , science has not yet been able to ascertain , but that they are in some way physically affected by every mental act is certain . Whatever we hear , see , or think , produces an impression , wholly ...
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... thought - recording by the cerebrum- with the consequential processes of reproducing sounds from the dots and lines traced on the tin- foil of a cylinder , and re - collecting thoughts from the altered or specially related corpuscles of ...
... thought - recording by the cerebrum- with the consequential processes of reproducing sounds from the dots and lines traced on the tin- foil of a cylinder , and re - collecting thoughts from the altered or specially related corpuscles of ...
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... thoughts occurring at the same time are generally connected , as though the impressions they produce were recorded on the same tablet or traced on the same sensitive surface ; hence what is called the " association of ideas . " Some ...
... thoughts occurring at the same time are generally connected , as though the impressions they produce were recorded on the same tablet or traced on the same sensitive surface ; hence what is called the " association of ideas . " Some ...
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... thought and placed ready to be recalled . It is possible to develop this artificial process of " committing to memory , " or preparing to recollect , too highly , and thereby to prevent the stability of impressions received , as by the ...
... thought and placed ready to be recalled . It is possible to develop this artificial process of " committing to memory , " or preparing to recollect , too highly , and thereby to prevent the stability of impressions received , as by the ...
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30 Coloured Plates 300 Woodcuts ADelaide Kemble ADELAIDE NEILSON ascertain associated automatic faculty Balliol College Birds BOTANY brain cloth extra cloth gilt committing to memory connected consciousness Containing Crown 8vo cultivate Dates of Creation DAVID BOGUE Demy 4to Demy 8vo desired to remember E. A. SOTHERN employed exercise experiment fact Fcap FERNS Figures of Eighty formul¿ H. J. BYRON habit Health Primers HENRY POWER ideas Illustrated with numerous impressions J. E. TAYLOR J. L. TOOLE JOHN KNIGHTAGE learning Lecture London MANUAL Martin's Place mental method mind NATURAL HISTORY numerous Illustrations numerous Woodcuts object paper particular persons phantoms picture Plain and Easy PLEASANT Published annually R. A. PROCTOR reader recall received recollection record remembering by sound Royal 16mo SCIENCE GOSSIP Second Edition Series SHILLING sight or sound sight-phantoms sight-writer sound-phantoms sound-writer Species squares storing super-royal 8vo taking-in thought tin-foil tion Vols Volumes Woodcuts words writing from memory
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