Maximizing your Memory

Harvard FAS

Can mint gum help you ace an exam? Is it better to pull an all-nighter to study or go to sleep? Could creating a daily drawing journal improve your memory for special moments? The ability to remember, and consequences of forgetting, deeply impact how we experience and interact with the world around us. In this course, we will draw from literature in educational psychology, applied cognitive psychology, and neuroscience to examine how to optimize the encoding, storage, and retrieval of memory.…