How to develop an exceptional memory.

Young, Morris N.; Gibson, Walter B.

doi:10.1037/14357-000

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“…Some of these systems are widely known. The cranial nerves are frequently remembered by the rhyme " O n old Olympus' towering top; A Finn and German vault and hop" in which the first O is a cue for the olfactory nerve, the second O a cue for the optic nerve, and so on (see Solso, 1979a, andYoung &Gibson, 1974, for other examples). However, the reason initial letters serve as an efficacious retrieval cue is not well understood, but several hypotheses have been suggested.…”

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The frequency and versatility of initial and terminal letters in English words

Solso

Juel

Rubin

1982

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

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A review of previous word and letter counts in addition to the applications of these counts were reported. A comprehensive count of initial and terminal letters and bigrams was compiled based on the KuSera and Francis (Computational analysis of present-day American English. Providence: Brown Univ. Press, 1967) corpus of English words. The count included frequency of occurrence and versatility, or number of different words in which letters or bigrams occurred. It was shown how such counts can be used to describe "Englishness" and make predictions as to the information load of letters in words and pseudo words.Current research interest in the reading process and memory storage of words has necessitated an increased understanding of word orthography. This need has been facilitated by large capacity computers, which have replaced the tedious hand counts of English words and letter frequencies. In the present paper a review of current word and letter counts is presented, an analysis of contemporary and potential use of orthographic structure is made, and a comprehensive count of initial and terminal letters is presented.The examination of orthographic structure in a language is usually preceded by an analysis of the occurrence of words. The first modern count of American words was begun in the 1920s by Thorndike and resuited in a massive word frequency count done by hand called the "Thorndike-The authors wish to thank Karen Falke for writing the computer program for the present research. Address reprint requests to Connie Juel, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex. 78712.

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The frequency and versatility of initial and terminal letters in English words

Solso

Juel

Rubin

1982

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

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“…However, compared with the number of different mnemonic procedures used with younger aged groups, effective mnemonics for training older adults are limited. There is a growing need to evaluate a wider range of mnemonic strategies for remediating task-specific memory deficits in older learners.A technique recommended by mnemonic experts for list learning is the chaining, or narrative story, method (Higbee, 1988;Young & Gibson, 1962). This procedure involves creating a personal story incorporating the target words.…”

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“…A technique recommended by mnemonic experts for list learning is the chaining, or narrative story, method (Higbee, 1988; Young & Gibson, 1962). This procedure involves creating a personal story incorporating the target words.…”

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Stories as a mnemonic aid for older learners.

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Allen²,

McWhorter³

1991

Psychology and Aging

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The effectiveness of a story mnemonic for free-recall learning was assessed in 71 community-dwelling elderly adults. Participants received 1 of 3 memory-training programs: (a) narrative story, (b) method of loci, or (c) placebo training. The stimuli consisted of 26 nouns chosen for being highly imagible and concrete. Recall was examined immediately following study of the words, after 1 hr, and after 3 days. At each testing interval, both mnemonic condition groups outperformed the placebo group. The results suggest that a story mnemonic can enhance word retention on a free-recall task.

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