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Nature provides few of us with eiditic memory, but by using mental tools such as mnemonics memory can be greatly enhanced. Mnemonics are simply either verbal or visual cues used to help one remember otherwise difficult-to-remember information. They work through the use of repetition and associations between easy-to-remember facts paired with arbitrary facts. Using this tool, in a specific situation, one can simulate a "photographic" memory. The best way to illustrate this is to demonstrate:
- We remember which direction to set our clocks when Daylight Savings Time arrives with the mnemonic: "Spring forward. Fall back."
- Central American nations are remembered by schoolchildren with the mnemonic: "Better Go Home Every Night Completely Paid".(From North to South: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama)
- The rhyme "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November: All the rest have thirty-one, Except February alone" allows us to remember the arbitrary pattern: 31, 28 (29), 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31.
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