Memory: mnemonics

[taratara1313]

I have a paper for my science project due on 12/16. I would would really appreciate it if you could help me and answer these questions.

1. What do we use mnemonics for?
2. How do we use mnemonics?
3. Where in the brain do we remember things?
4. How are mnemonics remembered?
5. Without mnemonics would it be harder to remember things?
6. The older you get, can you remember more?
7. How do you make a mnemonic?
8. Are there different types of mnemonics? If so what are they?
9. What is an example of a mnemonic?

Thank you

[deleted-71536]

Hi Tara,

Welcome to Science Buddies! It sounds like you have an interesting examining mnemonics and how they work.

Several of your questions appear to be background questions that can be answered by doing a bit of research. The purpose of Ask an Expert is to help answer your questions about your actual project, not to give you the answers to background questions that you can find on your own. Have you tried doing a Google search for "mnemonic"? One strategy is to start with Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic) and use it to find more accepted sources for the information.

Are you planning to design an experiment to answer any of your questions? For example, you could do an experiment to see whether it is easier to remember things with mnemonics (question 5).


Try doing some searches, and please post back to this same thread if you have further questions. Here are a few links to get you started:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mnemonic
http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnemonics.html
http://web-us.com/memory/mnemonic_techniques.htm

Good luck!
Heather

[taratara1313]

Ok sorry.
Thanks anyway.