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  • How the ‘Primacy Effect’ Can Help You Remember Information

    How the ‘Primacy Effect’ Can Help You Remember Information

    Your brain is complex, but once you figure out its little intricacies — like that it can only store about seven units of information in short-term memory — you can exploit them to help you remember more things. It’s not just the amount of information present that affects your memory, though. Even the order in…