An experiment was conducted in which the face-name mnemonic was applied to the task of associating 14 artists' names with two styles of their artwork, portraits and thematic paintings. Following study of the 28 items, mnemonic students outperformed "own best method" control students on both immediate and delayed matching tests. Further,…

Over the last century many individuals with exceptional memory have been studied and tested in the laboratory. This article studies Chao Lu, who set a Guinness World Record by memorizing 67,890 decimals of pi. Chao Lu's superior self-paced memorization of digits is shown through analyses of study times and verbal reports to be mediated by mnemonic…

Explored the range and effectiveness of mnemonics employed by untrained older adults in two studies (N=73) and (N=33) involving predicting and reporting memory strategies. Results showed predicted memory performance and actual memory performance were not strongly related and point out possible interpretive problems associated with "do-nothing"…