Academic writing

Imagining a Memory Palace: Method of Loci and the Effect of Object and Spatial Imagery Skill

Psychology thesis, 2019

The method of loci is an ancient mnemonic technique. It involves imagining information to be remembered in a visual form, mentally placing those items into an imagined environment, and then mentally traveling within this environment to recall the information. This study examined how object and spatial imagery ability separately influence performance using the method of loci. Participants completed a word list recall task, with results showing that object imagery ability predicted word recall, while spatial imagery ability was linked to the quality of serial organization of words.