Mnemonic peg system

The number - rhyme system, also called PEG method is a mnemonic technique to enter numbers and series of numbers to remember using rhyme words. It is easy to learn and takes place at professional athletes memory as well as using the more familiar method of loci or the number of similarly functioning - form system.

This method is so effective because the human brain can store stories better than pure sequences. By encoding and decoding of the numbers with words and stories formed therefrom, it is every man possible to memorize sequences of numbers up to 50 digits and more in no time.

Methodology

The technique is based on simple associations of digits and words, from which a slightly noticeable for the history of memory is formed. This is done by the digits 0 to 9 figured useful with a type of coding arises, which is subsequently decoded again in order to obtain the sequence of numbers.

Each number is assigned a rhyming word. The rhyming of the number words words, for example, to number eight the word yacht and a memorable picture as possible (here a yacht ) must be memorized first. This is done simply by repeatedly going through the numbers with you each time for matching rhyming word presents a vivid picture of the same himself. Each user should an individual digit word - rhyme list put together ( 0-9 ). The user must then learn no digit word list stubborn heart, but can fall back on what occurred to him spontaneously in the formation.

If the list rhymed safe in memory, so, each of the words and the mental image associated an orderly retrievable space for a to-remember word dar.

For example, the eighth term of a shopping list that you want to memorize the " tomato ", then one can imagine, for example, that the beautiful white yacht is all over with mountains of red tomatoes covered. The tomatoes smell and some fall into the water.

Just as good but it can be imagined that throwing people on the yacht in white clothing with tomatoes.

If one wishes to remind the list in the store, then you go the numbers 0 through 9. After getting the pictures rhyme well impressed, then one remembers, when you come to 8/acht number, not just the white yacht that represents the personal rhyme word for eight, but almost infallibly to the tomato fight on the yacht.

Thus, the number - rhyme system is not designed primarily to memorizing numbers, but the numbers memorized provide an ordered set of images

• Always find new lists of words with the help of other pictures of the to-remember words
• Which are associated with one image from the series of numbers in a combined image
• Can be noticed and so safe and retrieved in memory.

Stands on the heart to be learned shopping list next weekend in eighth place plastic wrap, then one can imagine, for example, as the yacht is completely wrapped with cling film.

Assuming the supermarket in the spirit successively by the numbers, then an incident at eight not only yacht, but you can see in his mind's eye the wrapped with cling film yacht.

The backbone of the ten digits and their associated words and images so always remains the same. They serve as a sort of cabinet, in its ten compartments you can store new words safe again.

If you repeatedly with a rhyme words have difficulty imagining good combined images, then it is suggested to change this and then but must adhere to the new image. Can one, for example, no absolutely good, so vibrant images with the fixed rhyme word for 5/fünf, here in the indicative list Strümpf form, or falls a gentle rhyme the word is not in, you may not hold on to you.

The number - rhyme system is a small system ( you can take the list above just save only 10 terms ), but is well suited for beginners to practice the imagining of combined images at all and to gain confidence in the techniques.

Advanced Number Rhyme System

The extended number - rhyme system, also called the master method, works with number -word combinations, which go beyond the numbers 0-9. Thus, the formed stories are shorter, with the result that the user still can simply memorize long sequences of numbers. The principle is very simple. After a user has already concocted his individual digit word - combination, this is enhanced by multiple of 10, which in turn are associated with a property, in the following example about properties that can be assigned to the decades of the 20th century.

With this system, the user is able to not have to take an object in the story for each individual digit. The items change the details now. The number " 22" is in the master method to a " golden Zoo", which is now included in the story. With the simple number - rhyme system, this would be two zoos.

Combination with the method of loci

One has a different classification system, eg about places ( loci ) that can pace out in a fixed order in the spirit, then of course you can take along the way from the number - rhyme system images and thus a code or Add a phone number.

So if your own house is crossed in the spirit and you have memorized a fixed route and a fixed order of cities and places in the house, then you can store as many numbers as you have specified places. For example, if the front door the first place, then you can imagine how one comes to meet a life-size yacht when opening the door, along with a gush of water. Then you know: Yacht represents the first eight digits of a phone number. If the second place and place the corner with their coats on hooks and the next number is seven, then you have to imagine that the coats are in a large sieve or on any clothes hook a wire is plugged in, because this is our rhyme word for seven is.

Here you turn while at pictures from the number - rhyme system, but not the system itself Instead, use is made in this example, the loci system, because this is the basis for the retrieval of images and thus the shopping content.