Memory from A to Z: Keywords, Concepts and Beyond

Edgar Allen Poe said that the optimal length of a piece of writing should be such that it can be comfortably read and digested in a single sitting (Poe, 1846). Poe was, of course, writing in a more leisurely age when an educated reader could be expected to plough through several pages of text before needing to pause and recuperate. Many modern students are so culturally attuned to the TV remote control, rather than to the slim octavo, that even serious textbooks by earnest authors tend nowadays to be divided into bite‐sized chunks and boxes. The average Reference Reviews book...