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Description of the Story System
| In this system the things-to-be-remembered are woven together in a coherent story.
This has one advantage over simple linking, where if one link is broken, the items on the
list after that may be lost completely. In the Story System there is a higher chance that
the flow of the story will allow most of the remainder of the list to be retrieved. Let
us take the words used in the to-do list in the Link
System example and use them in a story: car, iceberg, kangaroo, dog, bicycle, fire.
My car drove into a big iceberg on the road home. The collision caused a kangaroo to
tumble down. When it hopped away, our dog jumped out of its pouch and hit a man on a bicycle,
who nearly rode into a big fire meant to melt the freak iceberg.
A disadvantage of this system is that it is often difficult to come up with coherent
stories. Its success is thus somewhat dependent on the specific words and their ordering
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University of Amsterdam
