What Speakers Need to Know About the Brain
Fall is officially here and it’s time to put away the pails, shovels and sunscreen and get back to work. ...
Coping with the Stress of Public Speaking
It’s no secret that public speaking is stressful for most people. Helping people cope with that stress is something I ...
The Meaning of ALL CAPS
When you talk to someone face-to-face, your unconscious mind automatically absorbs the emotional state of the person in front of ...
Memory, Lighting, and Public Speaking
What are we to make of a recent study that showed some memory loss and impaired learning in lab rats ...
Neuroscience Sees Red – Insights for Public Speakers
A pair of studies I caught up with recently (here and here) explored the very human reactions of men and ...
Why Speakers Should be Helping Audiences Forget What They Know
There’s a particularly tedious kind of speaker that ostentatiously tries to teach his audience something by having the audience repeatedly ...
How to Create Messages that Are Impossible to Ignore
I had the pleasure recently of chatting with Dr. Carmen Simon, a cognitive scientist who works for Memzy, a company that ...
How To Talk to Audiences so that They Remember What You Say
Some recent research on memory and retention has important implications for public speakers everywhere who care about their audiences actually ...
Audiences Don’t Remember What They Hear – Here’s How to Fix That Problem
Regular readers of this blog will know that the statistics of remembering are unkind to public speakers everywhere. The research ...
How to Give a Memorable Presentation
Neuroscience is finally starting to crack the twin processes of remembering and forgetting – with important implications for public speakers. ...
