Associative Memory

• I do not have a photographic memory
• I have a good associative memory

Example of Association

Will associate selected facts

Facts

• Michael Aye attended St. Paul’s High School (SPHS) with my cousins : Myint Toe (Son of my paternal uncle) & Kyaw Nyunt (Son of my maternal aunt). They matriculated in 1965.

• Michael and Myint Toe attended RIT. They graduated with Mechanical Engineering in 1971.

• Michael and Kyaw Nyunt settled in the USA. Michael was a Best Man at Kyaw Nyunt’s wedding.

• Audrey (Michael’s wife) was a classmate of my sister-in-law at St. Philomena’s Convent.

• Audrey’s older brother Dr. Khin Maung Wint (Sargalay) was a classmate of my brother-in-law at SPHS.

• Sargalay’s wife Ma Pearl is the sister of Saya U Myo Win (Melvyn, M65, GBNF).

• Saya Melvyn’s wife Ma Nolene is the sister of Tin Aung Win (Tom) and Nyi Nyi Than (spouse of Sayama Toni).

• Tin Aung Win’s wife Dorothy is the younger daughter of my Saya U Kyaw Tun (EE, GBNF).

• Dorothy’s elder sister Elizabeth was my classmate at PPBRS.

The information pieces can be linked or associated.

Example

Let BIL stand for Brother-in-Law.

Then,

Tin Aung Win
= BIL(Melvyn)
= BIL(BIL(Sargalay))
= BIL(BIL(BIL(Michael Aye)))

Exercise

Try to connect the dots between Michael and me in several ways.