People are more likely to remember information they draw than information they visualize, write, or photograph, a new study published in Current Directions in Psychological Science says. Whereas other ...

“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 ...

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 ...

mnemonic-device-0415 Use the acronyms PASS and PAID to remember important murmurs Use the acronyms PASS and PAID to remember important murmurs: Pulmonic and Aortic Stenosis yield Systolic murmurs ...

As we exclusively reported yesterday, daylight savings is ending late tonight (technically tomorrow morning) at 2 a.m.. On the plus side, you will get one more hour of sleep. Unfortunately, this will ...

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 ...