equally upon images and places. The designator "method of loci" does not convey the equal weight placed on both elements. Training in the art or arts of memory as a whole, as attested in classical antiquity, was far more inclusive and comprehensive in the treatment of this subject. See also Anamonic Haraguchi's mnemonic system Interference theory Linkword Mnemosyne in Greek mythologie a Titanness and 'mother' of the nine Muses; also the river of memory in the Hades Mnemonist Mnemonic link system, major system, peg system, dominic system, and goroawase system Memory sport Piphilology Serial position effect Spacing effect The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two Zeigarnik effect Practitioners & exponents Institutional: Lodge Mother Kilwinning Individual: St. Thomas Aquinas Giulio Camillo Thomas Bradwardine Giordano Bruno Robert Fludd Giovanni Fontana William Fowler Hugh of St. Victor Johannes Romberch William Schaw World Memory Championships participants, an annual mental sports event since 1990. Notes References (limited preview on Google Books) External links TED talk: Joshua Foer on feats of memory anyone can do Mnemonics Dialectic Rhetoric Exceptional memory da:Hukommelseskunst io:Memorigiva arto