Mnemonic
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A mnemonic is a way for people to remember things more easily. For example the treble clef lines on a music staff are for the notes E G B D and F. Music students are taught to remember this with a mnemonic - Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (or Fruit).[1] The first known mnemonics were used by the Ancient Greeks. Cicero said the poet Simonides (c.556-c.468 B.C) discovered the power of mnemonics to help him make visual images so he could remember things.[2] The word mnemonic comes from the Greek words mnene, meaning memory and mnemon, meaning mindful.[3]
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- ↑ "FINAL REVIEW BEFORE AN EXAM". salisbury.edu. http://www.salisbury.edu/counseling/New/review_for_an_exam.html. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ↑ "Mental Imagery > Ancient Imagery Mnemonics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". plato.stanford.edu. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/ancient-imagery-mnemonics.html. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ↑ "MNEMONICS - INDEX/INTRODUCTION". eudesign.com. http://www.eudesign.com/mnems/_mnframe.htm. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
