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What's "mind-mapping"?


A mind map or mindmap is a polychromatic image centred radial diagram that represents semantic connections between portions of learned material. For example, it can graphically illustrate the structure of government institutions in a state. Once a mind map is well-structured and well-established, it can be subject to review (e.g. with spaced repetition). The uniform graphic formulation of the semantic structure of knowledge may help reconsolidation of memories. This can make memories more stable and long lasting and may increase motivation to work on a task.

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Origins
The mind map concept was originated by a British psychologist, Tony Buzan. He claimed the idea started forming as he wrote "An Encyclopedia of the Brain and Its Use" in 1971. The idea is that articles like this just rely on you reading left to right and top to bottom, while what we really do is scan the page. The use of the term "Mind Maps" for conducting self-help courses is trade-marked by The Buzan Organisation, Ltd. in the UK and the USA, though the trade-mark does not appear in the records of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

The idea of a mind map is closely related to that of a concept map, which originated in academic literature in the 1960s.

Uses of Mind Maps

The mind map is purported to have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations. Possibilities include note-taking, a modified variant of brainstorming (ideas are judged and put into an organized structure as opposed to the classical brainstorming where judgement is reserved for later stages), summarizing, revising and general clarifying of thoughts. For example, one could listen to a lecture and take down notes using mind maps for the most important points or keywords. It is claimed that the mind map is a vastly superior note taking method because it does not lead to the alleged "semi-hypnotic trance" state induced by the other note forms (Buzan 1991).

Software ranging from freeware to high-level commmercial applications or free software (open source) have implemented mind mapping. Today, mind maps have a following among some students and middle managers around the world.

One can use mind maps as a mnemonic technique or to sort out a complicated idea. Mind maps can also be created collaboratively.

Mind Map Laws

These are the foundation structures of a Mind Map:

Mind-mapping in Wikka

WikkaWiki supports mind-mapping through FreeMind, an open source java implementation of mindmaps.

 


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