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Mnemotechnics is an art of memorizing by linking visual images. A book I have gives these criteria for a proper image: you can roughly draw the object from mem

Mnemotechnics is an art of memorizing by linking visual images. A book I have gives these criteria for a proper image: you can roughly draw the object from memory you can name its main parts you can name its main colors you can describe its spatial orientation The image shouldn't be as clear as a hallucination, and it should be a memory of a specific object, not a generic one. Meeting these criteria is already enough to link another image to it, for example by piercing it with another object, though there's also the question of imagining it at a large enough size. Aphants, do these hold for you? Take Doge, the popular meme dog: not a generic Shiba Inu, but that exact picture. Could you sketch it, name its parts and colors, and say which way it's facing? And could you imagine, say, a pencil piercing it?

atoav 19d ago
This is btw. a very important consideration when you are teaching literally anything. Telling people to imagine a cone, then a plane, then rotating the other slightly and slice through the cone without touching the base, and then looking at a normal angle at the 2D shape of the resulting intersecting surface is a really good way to explain ellipses. IF the person you're talking to can do all these steps. Turns out some people can rotate a cow in their head and some can't. If you cannot, a drawing or animation can help a lot to get the point across. Now I haven't gotten a problem with imagination at all, but I can only imagine how hard some subjects might be if you can't do that in your head.
teunispeters 17d ago
"none of the above". Without a picture, I have no idea what the difference between a "Shiba Inu" and er a Doberman Pinscher is, except they probably have different texture fur and er ... different sizes, maybe? I remember "dog words". (and some textures and smells, but I don't remember ones for those two).

atoav 19d ago

This is btw. a very important consideration when you are teaching literally anything. Telling people to imagine a cone, then a plane, then rotating the other slightly and slice through the cone without touching the base, and then looking at a normal angle at the 2D shape of the resulting intersecting surface is a really good way to explain ellipses. IF the person you're talking to can do all these steps. Turns out some people can rotate a cow in their head and some can't. If you cannot, a drawing or animation can help a lot to get the point across. Now I haven't gotten a problem with imagination at all, but I can only imagine how hard some subjects might be if you can't do that in your head.

teunispeters 17d ago

"none of the above". Without a picture, I have no idea what the difference between a "Shiba Inu" and er a Doberman Pinscher is, except they probably have different texture fur and er ... different sizes, maybe? I remember "dog words". (and some textures and smells, but I don't remember ones for those two).