Child's Autism Helps Author Write Mnemonic Book. January 6, 2009 4:00 PM ET. ... These are mnemonic devices, memory jogs. And Christopher Stevens has compiled a bunch of them in his small book, ...

Mnemonic devices are memory aids that help you remember a specific thing. They can be acronyms, sentences, rhymes, or any other device that calls the things you’re trying to remember to mind ...

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Make up a mnemonic phrase. In elementary school, we all learned mnemonic phrases, like “my very educated mother just sat upon nine pizzas.”That one was designed to help us remember the names ...

Although mnemonic devices far predate the written word, both Cicero and Quintilian name Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BCE) as the first teacher of an art of memory. Simonides is perhaps best known ...

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Story at a glance Researchers found that mnemonic devices (MST) – using a rhyme or song to remember something – and spaced retrieval training could improve memory as people age. Spaced r… ...