Talk:Mnemonic link system

...remember the list (dog, envelope, thirteen, yarn, window), one could create a link system, such as a story about a "dog stuck in an envelope, mailed to an unlucky black cat playing with yarn by the window". It would be much more simple to remember the items (which are all nouns) by making them the only nouns in the phrase, rather than inserting extra nouns and making one of the nouns on the list a euphamism and omitting the word altogether. -SD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.55.215.220 (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No it wouldn't. Destynova (talk) 23:36, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

", seeing in one's mind's eye a ridiculous, absurd or just shocking image that includes two elements in the list that are next to each other"

This is wrong. The links between the two elements doesn't have to be bizarre or absurd. There only has to be an interaction between them to improve memory. They were a study on this using 4 groups of participants trying to remember pairs of words. Memory was improved equally when participants linked the pictures in their mind in an "interacting & bizarre" and "interacting & non-bizarre" way. There was no improvement when participants linked the pictures in their mind in a "non-interacting, non-bizarre" or "non-interacting", bizarre way.

References:
1) Wollen et al. (1972). "Bizarreness Versus Interaction of Mental Images as Determinants of Learning" pp. 518-523
2) Goldstein (2008). "Cognitive Psychology, 2nd Edition" pp. 347f

--92.227.176.208 (talk) 09:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the history page, I actually meant 'Someone please clean this up.'.

--GTubio 12:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"A person with a trained memory may be able to improve upon the efficiency, then, by using not a memorised mental linked list but a memorised mental binary search tree: finding any item takes O (log n) time, not O(n) time."
I have never heard of this... does anyone know what this is about? There's no link or explanation. It sounds like rubbish to be honest, as a binary search tree needs a way to determine if the search parameters is 'higher or lower' than the current node. So I can't imagine any realistic technique that would allow this kind of traversal of mental images. Also, it's not necessarily O(n) - sometimes one has a feeling of where in the list an item might be and can jump into the immediate vicinity of the item and follow links in the most familiar direction until they find the correct point.

--Destynova 16:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, removed that text as nobody has elaborated on it. I don't think it makes sense and it gives no reference.

--Destynova 22:09, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The external link "Memory Master" seems to be broken. Can anyone fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.136.237.125 (talk) 09:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]