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MnemonicA mnemonic (SAMPA /n@manIc/) is a memory aid. Mnemonics are often verbal, sometimes in verse form, and are often used to remember lists. Mnemonics rely on not only repetition to remember facts, but also on creating associations between easy-to-remember constructs and lists of data. The word "mnemonic" echoes the figure Mnemosyne who personified "Memory" in Greek mythology.
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A mnemonic technique is one of many memory aids that is used to create associations between facts that make it easier to remember these facts. Popular mnemonic techniques include mind mapping and peg lists. These techniques make use of the power of the visual cortex to simplify the complexity of memories. Thus simpler memories can be stored more efficiently. For example, a number can be remembered as a picture. This will make it easier to retrieve it from memory. Mnemonic techniques should be used in conjunction with active recall to actually be beneficial. For example it isn't enough to look at a mind map. One needs to actively reconstruct it in one's memory.
Other methods for remembering arbitrary numbers or number sequences use numerological (lit. number+word) systems like the abjad, where each numeral is represented by a consonant sound.
An example of a widely-used system for memorising numbers as words is the major system.
This is an example of a "Peg list". It is useful for remembering ordered lists, especially for people with strong auditory learning styles. The numbered list below is static. Note the rhyme of the digit and the word. The items you wish to remember should be associated with each word. A similar system utilizing a combination of this and the above "abjad" system can easily yield numbers through 100 or higher (ex. 76 lash, 77 lilly)
This is another peg system, much like the above but more suitable for those with visual learning styles.
The Ars memoriae (art of memory) practised in the Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance periods relied on the capacity of the brain for recalling spatial detail. The principle was to initially memorise some large building, the more architectural elaboration of rooms, passages and niches it had the better - the so-called `Memory Palace'. Mnemonic images could be placed about this palace to link to items that you wanted to remember, ususally in symbolic form, with the images as striking as possible to enable recollection. To recall something, the practitioner mentally moved around the palace, reviewing the images in order. This was an essential technique of rhetoricians and preachers.
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misfortune. Her reason is quite gone. Poor woman! I have known her ten
worthy person."
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slightly open.
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of evil. She grew frightened, rose from her chair, and drew near the
and have resented it. Now, he did not even raise his eyes. He remained
thoughts were in the past; it seemed to him but yesterday that he had
peace."
The count started, as if he had been struck. His eyes encountered the
in the doctor, who purposely saw nothing of all this. "She would
to her, taken her hand, she remained quite insensible."
The old soldier reflected deeply.
"Enter," said he at last to the count; "perhaps it is God's will."
The count tottered so that the doctor offered to assist him. He gently
remained at the threshold of the door, facing the bed.
The count took three or four steps, and was obliged to stop. He wished
nothing in that distorted face, recalled the beautiful, the adored
strength, she raised herself, exposing her shoulders and emaciated
her still plentiful hair, bathed with water and perspiration, she
persons present--the transformation in the sick woman. Her contracted
sunken by disease, assumed an expression of infinite tenderness.
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