Take the familiar spelling rule: "i" before "e," except after "c," or in sounding like "ay" as in "neighbor" or "weigh. One mnemonic strategy that helps encode new information is to connect it with something else that you already are familiar with or know. This gives it meaning and makes it easier to remember. Making connections is a type of elaborative rehearsal and can be applied to almost any subject or type of information. For example, imagine that you are just introduced to someone named Jeffery.
Rather than mentally zipping past his name, pay attention and think about how you can remember it. Perhaps you notice that Jeffery is very energetic, so you can imagine him jumping around his work and connect Jeffrey with jumping. The next time you see him. The method of loci pronounced low-sigh is arguably the earliest identified mnemonic in history. It's also one of the most researched mnemonics, demonstrating strong success across a wide spectrum of academic subjects and life situations.
How does it work? In the method of loci , the learner visualizes a room or a familiar path through a building and mentally associates facts or information with specific locations or objects along the way. In order to recall what he's learned, he re-visualizes moving through that room or along that path and each stop along the way triggers another piece of information. This method is also called the journey method, creating a "memory palace" or the mental walk strategy.
Research ranging from medical students learning about diabetes to college students remembering grocery lists show significant improvements when the method of loci is used. The peg method is an especially useful mnemonic for remembering sequenced information. If first requires that you memorize the following list in help you order the facts:.
After you have memorized this list, look over the new information that you are trying to learn. Then, connect the first word to "bun," the second word to "shoe," the third word to "tree," etc. The goal is to make a memorable connection with each new piece of information you need to memorize.
Using the peg system, you'll first think of a kingdom placed on a hamburger bun. Then, you'll imagine the mathematical division sign inside a shoe. Next, you'll picture a classroom perched on a tree branch. And so on. This method allows you to be able to recall both the specific piece of information as well as the correct order in which it needs to be placed. The mnemonic linking method also called "chaining" consists of developing a story or image that connects together pieces of information you need to remember.
Each item leads you to recall the next item. For example, imagine that you need to remember to bring the following things with you to school in the morning: homework papers, glasses, gym shoes, wallet, lunch money, and keys.
Using the linking system, you can think of the following short story to help you: Jack's homework papers put on their glasses and gym shoes and ran over to his wallet where his hungry keys were eating his lunch money. If you add interesting details or humor, it often makes the information easier to remember.
Using mnemonic memory strategies can give you that boost in your memory that we all need, and it can improve your efficiency in learning as well. Keep in mind that you may need to practice a few of these strategies before they come easily, but once you have them down, they should clearly benefit your learning and recall of information.
In trials of verbal memory, primacy refers to words initially presented in a learning list and primacy was found to be affected by memory dysfunction Lezak, In normative trials with typically-developing 9—10 year-olds, serial position effects were noted for both primacy and recency words presented at the end of the list; Forrester and Geffen, Given these known patterns of learning with both memory disordered and typical populations, it is also important to consider the effects of serial order in learning using musical mnemonics.
Studies of individuals without hearing revealed decreased prefrontal cortical development as well as poorer performance on tests of sequencing than age matched controls with normal hearing Conway et al. These findings suggest a privileged role for auditory information in the learning process. Music, as a system for delivering highly organizing auditory information, may have unique effects upon operations involving the phonological loop Baddeley and Hitch, Of special importance in this respect for music as a mnemonic device have been early experiments by Miller which revealed that working memory processes allow us to group information together into meaningful chunks, often based on relationships with the individual's long term memories.
Musical training has been shown to change brain structures and summaries of imaging studies conducted over the past 20 years corral evidence suggesting that regular study of music influences plastic changes in brain functioning Habib and Besson, ; Wan and Schlaug, ; Moreno et al.
Correlational studies have found links between memory performance and musical training. Chan et al. A later study conducted by Ho et al. George and Coch compared event-related potential ERP data and performance on a standardized test of working memory of musicians and non-musicians and found both better performance measures as well as ERP data suggesting more efficient working memory performance in musicians.
An experimental study of 4—6 year old children engaged in 1 year of Suzuki-based violin instruction performed better and improved more significantly than their age matched peers in digit span memory tests Fujioka et al. Taken together, these correlational and experimental data support theories that musical training has a transfer effect upon a participant's working memory ability. But targeted training of verbal memory using music can have more immediate effects on learning and verbal memory performance.
An early study by Gfeller with children with learning disabilities found improved learning of verbal information when presented sung. Further study of training with musical templates was conducted by Wolfe and Hom In their study with 5 year olds, telephone numbers were presented either spoken or sung using a familiar melody.
Study participants in the sung condition required significantly fewer trials to learn the target telephone number. Wallace conducted experiments comparing spoken text vs. To understand the effects of musical templates on children with learning disabilities, Claussen and Thaut presented multiplication tables in spoken or sung forms.
As in earlier trials, participants receiving the sung condition outperformed their peers who heard the spoken presentation of multiplication tables. To better understand potential mechanisms of verbal learning training using music, Peterson and Thaut used electroencephalograph EEG measures to compare a sung version of the RAVLT with the conventional spoken version in a randomized trial with 18—26 year olds.
The study authors found an increased oscillatory synchronization both within and between left and right prefrontal cortical areas in the group training with sung presentations of words. Study authors arrived at their dependent variable of learning related change in coherence LRCC p. Another study with individuals with Multiple Sclerosis utilizing a similar test procedure while also examining EEG activity found word order memory as predictive of higher overall word recall performance Thaut et al.
This study also found increased bilateral synchronization of the prefrontal cortices in participants who heard the word lists sung compared to those who heard the lists spoken. Building on previous studies of musical mnemonics, the present study investigated the effect of musical mnemonics in typically developing children using assessments and procedures previously primarily researched with adults and clinical populations by utilizing a musical translation of the RAVLT which has been widely used for quantifying verbal learning and memory across a range of ages Schmidt, This study with typically developing children demonstrates the immediate effects of verbal memory training with rhythmic and melodic templates and provides a baseline for further investigation with special populations.
Inclusion criteria required participants to be between 9 and 11 years old, or between and months. Sample size was estimated using data from Forrester and Geffen's large scale study of typically developing Australian children and Thaut et al. Utilizing these data to inform a power analysis, a similar percentage change in retention score While a total of 33 participants were recruited and participated in the study, one was disqualified from inclusion due to the family reported diagnosis of ADHD.
Of the 32 participants included in the analysis, the test and control conditions each contained 16 participants. Test and control condition groups were evenly distributed with 5 girls and 11 boys present in each group and distribution of age was found to be the same across both groups. A block randomization protocol was utilized to assign participants to either the control or music condition.
Allocation according to this randomization schedule occurred at the time of participation. Chronology was demonstrated through the codes as each included the date and a letter if there were multiple participants on a single day and whether they received the music Y or control X condition. The experimenters were blinded to assigned conditions. The study was designed as a randomized and controlled group comparison of the immediate effects of rhythmic and melodic presentation on verbal recall, recognition, serial position and word order.
The study was approved by the appropriate institutional review boards. Novel melodies created by the researcher served as the music used in the test condition. In keeping with typical administration of the RAVLT, the words were presented one per second and the participant was asked to recall as many words as possible after each presentation.
An initial series of five presentations AT was followed by presentation of a second list of words that served as a distractor list DT. After attempting to recall the distraction list words, the participants were again prompted to recall the words from the original list RT, or retention trial.
Participants were then provided a min time break. After the min wash-out period, participants put on headphones and again were prompted by the narrator to recall the original list words DRT, or delayed recall trial see Figure 1. After this final retention phase, participants were presented with the Recognition test. The Recognition test was a written form used in prior studies of the RAVLT Schmidt, , a single page containing 50 words: Words from both lists A and B as well as 20 other words that were not presented on either list.
Figure 1. Pictorial of conditions. Illustrations by Yorlmar Campos, Romzicon, and Icon54 from the noun project. To evaluate the effect of musical presentation on verbal memory, the Retention trial RT was considered the primary outcome. Other data points served as secondary outcomes, to provide insight into possible mechanisms in the musical presentation on various aspects of the learning process. Secondary dependent variables for this study included summary and composite scores from the first five acquisition trials, delayed recall DRT following a 15 min wash out interval and recognition.
Additional dependent variables included serial word order and serial position scores. Interference on learning was recorded by counting repetitions all instances of a word being repeated during recall , intrusions words that are recalled by a participant but that do not appear on the target list , and contaminations words incorrectly recalled as belonging to the opposing list.
Two independent inter-raters used the test's recall scoring form to transcribe and score the recording of each participant's performance. Total learning summary of AT is a commonly reported measure of RAVLT performance Forrester and Geffen, ; Schmidt, and provides a summary of participant initial learning before presentation of interference from a distractor list or time delay.
In addition to total learning, researchers have developed composite scores in an attempt to isolate the performance of repeated practice, e.
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Your list is only limited by your own imagination—you can come up with one by taking inspiration from the world around you, such as making the list correspond to a grocery list or thinking of a group of objects or items. When trying to come up with a mnemonic, you can look at the examples given in the Background section, above.
For example, you could come up with an acronym that uses the first letter of each word on the list. Alternatively, if you make a list of words that are descriptive, you could think of a funny sentence or image that incorporates all of those words.
How well do you think your mnemonic will work? On a second sheet of paper, write the list of words and include the mnemonic if it is something that can be easily written down.
Hand the other sheet of paper with the list of words and its mnemonic to a different group of at least three volunteers. To the group that received the list along with the mnemonic, tell or show them how the mnemonic works. Make sure that the group that didn't receive the mnemonic does not try to make up one to help them memorize the list. How confident do both groups seem about knowing the words at the end of the five minutes?
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