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Academictips.org - Memory Techniques, Memorization Tips - The Roman Room Technique

The Roman Room technique is an ancient and effective way of remembering
unstructured information where the relationship of items of information to
other items of information is not important.

It functions by imagining a room (e.g. your sitting room or bedroom). Within that room are objects. The technique works by associating images with those objects.

To recall information,
simply take a tour around the room in your mind, visualising the known objects and their associated images.

Expanding the Roman Room System

The technique can be expanded in one way, by going into more detail, and
keying images to smaller objects. Alternatively you can open doors from the
room you are using into other rooms, and use their objects to expand the
volume of information stored. When you have more experience you may find
that you can build extensions to your rooms in your imagination, and populate
them with objects that would logically be there.

Other rooms can be used to store other categories of information.

Moreover, there is no need to restrict this information to rooms: you could
use a view or a town you know well, and populate it with memory images.

Summary

The Roman Room technique is similar to the Journey method, in that it works
by pegging images coding for information to known images, in this case to
objects in a room or several rooms.

The Roman Room technique is most effective for storing lists of unlinked
information, whereas the journey method is most effective for storing lists
of related items.