Eighth-grade students read passages that described three dichotomized attributes of eight North American minerals. One-third of the students were given instruction in the use of mnemonic techniques, ...

As the silly phrase “kings play chess on funny green squares” (or whichever variant you may have learned in biology class for the biological classification of organisms) illustrates, mnemonics are ...

When learning the word "ostentatious," imagine a peacock wearing a massive gold chain and sunglasses, standing proudly on a pile of glittering jewels ...

Cognitive science provides evidence-based methods to improve memory ... Forming meaningful connections Associating new information with existing knowledge aids recall. Mnemonics like acronyms or vivid ...

THIS book contains a series of miscellaneous papers dealing with the application of mnemonic notation to various branches of pure and applied science, and especially to structural engineering. The ...