Achieving Value of Information Via Brain Training - Mnemonic Techniques Used in Brain Training

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Mnemonic Techniques are strategies / methods and devices that we can use to remember significant information and enhance memory. The word mnemonic came from the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, which means "memory enhancing."

Analyzing the term "mnemonic" brings to memory the 1995 film of Keanu Reeves, "Johnny Mnemonic". In the film, Reeves plays a mnemonic data courier, with an implanted memory chip in his brain. He was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark.

Mnemonic techniques are believed to work because they provide meaningful connections between informational items that are difficult to remember. The following are mnemonics techniques popularly used and when to use it:

For information involving key words:

o ACRONYM is an invented combination of letters with each letter acting as a cue to an idea you need to remember.
o ACROSTIC an invented sentence where the first letter of each word is a cue to an idea you need to remember.

For ordered or unordered lists:

o RHYME-KEYS is a 2-step memory process wherein one Memorizes key words that can be associated with numbers, then, create an image of the items need to be remembered with key words.
o CHAINING is creating a story where each word or idea you have to remember will cue the next idea you need to recall.

For approximately twenty items:

o LOCI METHOD is imagining placing the items you want to remember in specific locations in a room with which you are familiar.

For foreign language vocabulary:

o KEYWORD METHOD is selecting the foreign words you need to remember, then, identifying an English word that sounds like the foreign one. It is followed by imagining an image that involves the key word with the English meaning of the foreign word.

For remembering names:

o IMAGE-NAME TECHNIQUE is inventing a relationship between the name and the physical characteristics of the person.

Mnemonic Techniques are not only valuable to daily living but more so in the business of information-generating, collecting, integrating, aggregating, or analyzing large bodies of important data. With these techniques, the realization of the full value of information, whether structured or unstructured can be achieved.

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Source by Janet T. Mary