Anatomical Sciences Education Vol. 9, Issue 5, 2016 Cover Image.

ON THE COVER Associate professor Kerry Dickson and biomedical science students at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia are showing the miming actions used as mnemonics for teaching each of the 12 cranial nerves. In this issue of ASE, Kerry Dickson and Bruce Stephens describe these actions (for example, CN II: hands forming tunnels in front of the eyes to represent vision) and the effect of their use on student performance. The authors found that learning was improved with miming, and that students perceived the miming classes to be more interactive, engaging, effective and motivating to attend than traditional didactic lectures.