A mnemonic device is a shortcut memory aid to storing facts fast and accurately. Mnemonic (the m is silent) is eponymously derived from Mnemosyne, the shadowy daughter of Uranus and Gaea, a wife of ...

A team of researchers from the Netherlands, Austria and Germany has found that a well-known mnemonic device used to improve short-term memory also improves longer-term memory. In their paper published ...

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 for ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A friend wrote that she had a great way of remembering a complicated topic. “I created a pneumonic device,” she said. And an ...

“Experimental Evidence for ‘Hyperaromaticity,’ ” on the contribution of hyperconjugation to aromaticity, lends itself to a convenient mnemonic device that I have used in an introductory organic ...