A lot of things are hierarchical, often with numbers, in something very much like your "core concepts" idea. Some things get tied as ordered lists, most procedures work this way, but so do many unstructured lists, such as "what to pack for a weekend". As long as I can tie a number to something, I can usually remember it. Music things get stored musically. They are stored as sound, and tied into tunes and songs. Abstract notes (not the names, but the notes themselves) are stored in my brain easily, very much like numbers. Lyrics don't store well in this format, which is why I lose them easily.
That's very different, and very unintuitive. For me, memory is strongly tied to vision and emotion; even information that's purely verbal gets filed along with visual cues. This means that I tend to recall a lot of irrelevant visual data (page layout, typography, color schemes, even the handwriting of old teachers.) This makes listing information a helpful tool -- listing implies writing something out and setting it out on a page; when recalling, I visualize the page. When I meet someone new, I immediately visualize what their name looks like; if I'm listening to something, I need to follow along with the way the letters look.
Possibly for that reason, I never remember anything I hear for a very long time.
(incidentally, despite those graphics, I still associate the 7 color metasystem with the colorscheme on your LJ.)
Strong emotion is also a cue, of course, but this tends to be unhelpful. :p
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That's very different, and very unintuitive. For me, memory is strongly tied to vision and emotion; even information that's purely verbal gets filed along with visual cues. This means that I tend to recall a lot of irrelevant visual data (page layout, typography, color schemes, even the handwriting of old teachers.) This makes listing information a helpful tool -- listing implies writing something out and setting it out on a page; when recalling, I visualize the page. When I meet someone new, I immediately visualize what their name looks like; if I'm listening to something, I need to follow along with the way the letters look.
Possibly for that reason, I never remember anything I hear for a very long time.
(incidentally, despite those graphics, I still associate the 7 color metasystem with the colorscheme on your LJ.)
Strong emotion is also a cue, of course, but this tends to be unhelpful. :p
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