Memory, Mnemonics and Mnemonic Techniques from MindTools.com - The Diigo Meta page

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• 12 Sep 14
  

  hkeatley
  • Introduction to Memory Techniques
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language
  • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones
  • The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location. Working together, you can use these principles to generate powerful mnemonic systems.

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  Shannon Tipton

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  derpington34
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
     
     
  • Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics. Your imagination is what you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you
  • • Placing things on top of each other.
     
    • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.

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• 21 Apr 14
  

  nkim20
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
     
     
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  acobb20
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.

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  npham20
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  Sophie Chang
  • improve your memory.
  • remember facts accurately and to remember the structure of information.
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
  • The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them.
  • The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location. Working together, you can use these principles to generate powerful mnemonic systems.
  • Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics
  • Association: this is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it
  • Location: gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information so that it hangs together, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another

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  Willy Joo
  • Firstly you'll learn the memory techniques
  • look at how you can use them in practice to remember peoples names, languages, exam information, and so on.
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
  • Imagination
  • Association
  • • Placing things on top of each other.
     
    • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.
  • Location

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  gregoryarvind

  • help you to improve your memory. They help you both to remember facts accurately and to remember the structure of information.

     

    The tools are split into two sections.
  • This section contains many of the memory techniques used by stage memory performers. With enough practice and effort, you may be able to have a memory as good. Eve
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember
  • smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live i
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.

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  kbudiwarman20
  • colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch
  • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch
  • • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
  • The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation, the more effectively it will stick in your mind for later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.

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  xyang20
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
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  ichiang20
  • They help you both to remember facts accurately and to remember the structure of information.
  • As with other mind tools, the more practice you give yourself with these techniques, the more effectively you will use them.
  • Even if you do not have the time needed to develop this quality of memory, many of the techniques here are useful in everyday life.
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • While writing is a rich and sophisticated medium for conveying complex arguments, our brains do not easily encode written information, making it difficult to remember.
  • using vivid mental images
  • code both information and the structure of information.
  • Use positive, pleasant images.
  • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images
  • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image.
  • ive your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid.
  • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
  • Use humor!
  • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
  • Symbols
  • Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.
  • The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.
  • Association: this is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it.
  • Placing things on top of each other.
  • • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.
  • Location: gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information so that it hangs together, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.
  • You can build the flavors and atmosphere of these places into your mnemonics to strengthen the feeling of location.

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  atran20
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.

  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.

       
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language

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  kimnguyen122001
  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall:
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.

  • You can do the following things to make your mnemonics more memorable:

     
     
    • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively

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  Haryoung 20
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool.
  • remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall:
  • 30 days hath September
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • e use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
  • Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently – as words printed on a page.

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  jean-lucnguyen
  • The tools in this section help you to improve your memory. They help you both to remember facts accurately and to remember the structure of information.
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.
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  winnie52
  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall
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  lpham20
  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.
  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.

  • You can do the following things to make your mnemonics more memorable:

     
     
    • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.

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  clim20
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool
  • The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them.

  • You can do the following things to make your mnemonics more memorable:

     
     
    • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.

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  YoonSeok Lee
  • The tools are split into two sections. Firstly you'll learn the memory techniques themselves.
  • As with other mind tools, the more practice you give yourself with these techniques, the more effectively you will use them.
  • Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently – as words printed on a page. While writing is a rich and sophisticated medium for conveying complex arguments, our brains do not easily encode written information, making it difficult to remember.
  • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
  • • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
     
     
  • Wrapping them around each other.
  • You can build the flavors and atmosphere of these places into your mnemonics to strengthen the feeling of location.

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  dhong20
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
  • our brains do not easily encode written information, making it difficult to remember.
  • coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
     
     

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  bschultz20
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
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  glee20

  • Designing Mnemonics: Imagination, Association and Location

     

    The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location. Working together, you can use these principles to generate powerful mnemonic systems.

     

    Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics. Your imagination is what you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you. The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation, the more effectively it will stick in your mind for later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.

     

    Association: this is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it. You can create associations by:

     
     
    • Placing things on top of each other.
     
    • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.
     
     

    Location: gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information so that it hangs together, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another. By setting one mnemonic in a particular town, I can separate it from a similar mnemonic set in a city. For example, by setting one in Wimbledon and another similar mnemonic with images of Manhattan, we can separate them with no danger of confusion. You can build the flavors and atmosphere of these places into your mnemonics to strengthen the feeling of location.
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  brookie_paige
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language
  • Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently – as words printed on a page. While writing is a rich and sophisticated medium for conveying complex arguments, our brains do not easily encode written information, making it difficult to remember.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.

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  Minh Duong
  • improve your memory.
  •  

    Use your whole mind to remember.

     

    © iStockphoto/Yakobchuk

     

     

    The tools in this section help you to
  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.
  • You can do the following things to make your mnemonics more memorable:
  • Your imagination is what you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you. The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation, the more effectively it will stick in your mind for later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.

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  ngocle20
  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall
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  hi123456789
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.
  • Our memories store all of these very effectively.
  • a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently – as words printed on a page.
  • While writing is a rich and sophisticated medium for conveying complex arguments, our brains do not easily encode written information, making it difficult to remember.
  • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
  • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
  • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
  • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
  • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
  • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
  • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
  • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
  • is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics. Your imagination is what you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you. The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation, the more effectively it will stick in your mind for later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.
  • • Placing things on top of each other.
     
    • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.

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  rtogashi20
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.

  • Using Your Whole Mind to Remember

     

    The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them.

     

    The techniques explained later on in this section show you how to code information vividly, using stories, strong mental images, familiar journeys, and so on.

     

    You can do the following things to make your mnemonics more memorable:

     
     
    • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
  • Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics. Your imagination is what you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you.

  • Association: this is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it. You can create associations by:

     
     
    • Placing things on top of each other.
     
    • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.
  • Location: gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information so that it hangs together, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another. By setting one mnemonic in a particular town,

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  Kamille Thai

  Mnemonics

  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall:
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.
  • Our memories store all of these very effectively.
  • The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.

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  avickers20
  • The tools in this section help you to improve your memor
  • Even if you do not have the time needed to develop this quality of memory, many of the techniques here are useful in everyday life.
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
  • The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images
  • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
  • The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location. Working together, you can use these principles to generate powerful mnemonic systems.

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  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall:
  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool.
  • images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
  • • Placing things on top of each other.
     
    • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.

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  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
  • The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location. Working together, you can use these principles to generate powerful mnemonic systems.
  • • Placing things on top of each other.
     
    • Crashing things together.
     
    • Merging images together.
     
    • Wrapping them around each other.
     
    • Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together.
     
    • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.
     
    • As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.

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  • 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool.
  • • Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
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  Gary Johnston
  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • ds, smells,
  • tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in.
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  • Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall
  • encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember
  • Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimul
  • use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in
  • coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information
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  • reliably code both information and the structure of information
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  • The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation, the more effectively it will stick in your mind for later recall
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  • more effectively it will stick
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  • Association
  • link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it
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  • coherent context into which you can place information so that it hangs together
  • separating one mnemonic from another.

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  • It's a classic situation - you meet someone new, and then moments later you've forgotten their name! Names, passwords, pin and telephone numbers... the list is endless - with so much to memorize is it really possible to improve how much you can remember?

     

    The good news is "yes"! Just like every muscle in your body, the adage "use it or lose it" applies, so the more you exercise your brain, the more you will remember.
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  • The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information.
  • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
  • The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location.
  • Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.
  • Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.

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    Association: this is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it. You can create associations by:

     
     
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  • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
  • Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.

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    Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.
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  • The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.
  • • se positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones.
     
    • Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images – these are easier to remember than drab ones.
     
    • Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
     
    • Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
     
    • Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image.
     
    • Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
     
    • Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
     
    • Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively.
     
     
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  Paul Terry Walhus on 2006-07-26
  The techniques it explains are particularly helpful in studying for exams or in situations where you need to remember detailed, structured information. They also make things like learning foreign languages and remembering people's names much easier.
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  donnashipley on 2007-11-24
  This section of Mind Tools teaches you useful techniques that help you improve your memory. These tools help you remember people's names more effectively, improve your recall of information in exams, increase the speed with which you can learn vocabulary, and help you in situations where you need to remember detailed, structured information.
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  johndossman on 2007-12-19
  This section of Mind Tools teaches you useful techniques that help you improve your memory.
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  Gado Wager on 2008-01-17
  Information, tools and techniques that help to remember people's names more effectively, improve your recall of information in exams, increase the speed with which you can learn vocabulary, and help you in situations where you need to remember detailed, structured information.
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