Short Term Memory : The Roman Room Method – A Time-Tested Memory Training Technique

Published December 13, 2019

Article by Gustavo Horton

Our memory has both short-term and long-term components. The short-term componentstores data for only a short interval. Rarely more than a few minutes. It isdelicate by nature and the brain soon discards it. It is widely believed that thebrain can typically only hold at least 7 short-term memories.

That explains why a person can usually recall their phone number but needs to readfrom their credit card when making a purchase.

A primitive but effective way of remembering information when the long or short-termcomponent isn\’t important is by using the Roman Room System. It provides the basisfor a very effective mnemonic method employed to learn new languages.

To take advantage of this system you should visualize a room that you are familiarwith like your bedroom, living room, dining room, gym, theatre, etc.

* Then visualize where within these rooms the common objects are situated. * Next, you associated the images of those objects with the data you want torecall. * To remember your data, move around the room in your mind and create images ofknown objects and associate them with the different data you need to recall. * You can enhance this technique by going into the fine details and keying datawith smaller objects. * You can even open doors from that room to another room and use items foundthere also.

It should be noted how easy it is to create extensions into the rooms you arevisualizing in your mind and then filling them with objects that would logically bein those rooms. What you are doing is creating rooms to store different categoriesof data in your memory.

The Roman Room System is but one way of linking your map of data in an easy way andyou aren\’t restricted to storing your data in rooms. You can use a town center, aforest or a park and use the objects or landmarks found there to link to your data.

Let\’s look at an example using a bedroom as the basis.

Some of the objects we may see in your bedroom could be:

* A bed * A lamp * A chair * A bookshelf * A DVD player * A phone * A television * A mirror * A photo frame

Now link each of these objects with one piece of information you want to recall suchas vocabulary words in a foreign language, renown scientists, elements of theperiodic table, grocery list, etc.

Then visualize yourself walking into your bedroom. As you walk around the bedroomlook at each object and visualize the data you have linked to it and hold thatpicture in your mind for at least 10 seconds to make sure it is imprinted in yourmemory.

When the time comes that you need to recall the information just walk back into yourbedroom in your mind and activate those associations.

The Roman Room systemis a lot like the Journey method. It works effectively byassociating images and information to remember with common, everyday items. It is anefficient way for storing lists of unrelated information. In contrast the Journeymethod is best for remembering lists of ordered objects.

As with any endeavor to learn something new, practice makes perfect. Boosting ourmemory skills is no different and the methods and techniques we employ will be moreuseful the more we use them. A better memory is not achievable without practice andeffort.

If you take the time and make a concerted effort to practicememory improvement techniques you will find the results that manifest in your dailylife to be very rewarding. You can find more tips and techniques at improve memory

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