[bproper]

These mnemonics techniques have been used since the ancient Greeks and Romans. But does it train your brain in the same way if the images and storylines are being given to you with pre-packaged GIFS?

Brining gaming and crowd-sourcing into memory training is interesting, since this kind of learning has traditionally been a very isolated practice.

[gregdetre]

This is a great question.

In our experience, we've found that creating your own mnemonic is usually the best way to really deeply encode a new memory.

But a great mem from someone else works almost as well. And it's a lot easier to breeze along, giggling at other people's imagery, occasionally coming up with something new of your own.