... They work by organising new information into a cohesive whole so that retrieval of part of the information ensures retrieval of the rest of it. The information stored is more elaborate, but makes the material easier to recall. Past studies have shown support for the theory that mnemonic systems improve recall (Bower,1970; Roediger III,1980). Roediger III's experiment studied the classic mnemonic systems of the method of loci, in which items to be remembered are mentally associated with a specific location, the peg system, which involves the association of items to be remembered with a set of mental pegs already stored in memory. It also looked at the link method, where each item is converted into interacting images, forming an associate chain of interacting images supporting the recall of items in the appropriate order, and finally mental imagery, the construction of mental pictures that link isolated (or paired) words in a ...

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