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Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience

Training Pi (π)

In the “learning π using colours” study participants will be introduced to the memory technique chunking and colour associations which may help in memorizing more digits.

Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience

Training Pi (π)

In the “learning π using colours” study participants will be introduced to the memory technique chunking and colour associations which may help in memorizing more digits.

Learning π (Pi) to many decimal places is a fun and challenging task undertaken by people all over the world! In the “learning π using colours” study participants will be introduced to the memory technique chunking and colour associations which may help in memorizing more digits. Learning π takes time and patience therefore participant must have a genuine interest in learning π in their own time.

This is an online study which takes part over 12 weeks with testing occurring once a month. Participants will complete a colour test at the start and end of the study (weeks 0 and 12) and recite π each month (weeks 0, 4, 8 and 12). No monetary reimbursement will be given however we hope this will be beneficial for learning to recite π.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing for you!

Materials for the training Pi study

There are three different types of chunking available here. No chunking (C1), chunks of two (C2) or chunks of four (C4). Pi has been seperated into sections of 500 decimal places. C1_1-500 is no chunking for the first 500 decimal places of Pi (1-500). C4_501-1000 is chunks of 4 for decimal places 501 to 1000. These files are made in the colours to be learnt for each digit. The background is grey so that white digits can be seen.

Chunks of 1 (no chunking)Chunks of 2Chunks of 4