ABSTRACT

In a typical United States classroom of fifty students, there is easily the possibility of having more than two students named Chris. Whereas in a Japanese or Chinese classroom, each individual name carries a unique and specific meaning and visualization. Understanding that we humans have a finite limitation to our short-term memory, psychologist George Miller, in 1957, dubbed this as the "magical number seven." Basically, the short-term memory in our brains are best able to recall things up to seven digits at a time. Keeping in mind that our modern day of smartphones and electronic devices do this work for us, bear with me for a moment for an illustration of how to remember long passages of numbers. In summary, by using a smart or associative learning device, we can increase the storage capacity dramatically in a neural network, making the learning process a much more efficient and fun way for remembering things.