Mnemonic makes use of elaborative encoding, retrieval cues and imagery as specific tools to encode information in a way that allows for efficient storage and retrieval.
Considered the art of memory.
It aids original information in becoming associated with something more accessible or meaningful—which in turn provides better retention of the information.
Commonly encountered mnemonics are often used for lists and in auditory form such as short poems, acronyms, initialisms or memorable phrases.
The human mind more easily remembers spatial, personal, surprising, physical, sexual, humorous and otherwise relatable information rather than more abstract or impersonal forms of information.
Natural memory is inborn and is the one that everyone uses instinctively.
Artificial memory has to be trained and developed through the learning and practice of a variety of mnemonic techniques.
Mnemonic systems are techniques or strategies consciously used to improve memory, using information already stored in long-term memory to make memorization an easier task
Mnemonic systems aid the memory, to enable the mind to reproduce a relatively unfamiliar idea, and especially a series of dissociated ideas, by connecting it, or them, in some artificial whole, the parts of which are mutually suggestive.
Songs and jingles can be used as a mnemonic (singing the ABCs.
Name mnemonics-acronym
The first letter of each word is combined into a new word.
Acrostic mnemonics-The first letter of each word is combined to form a phrase or sentence.
Model mnemonics helps recall information-use of diagrams, cycles, graphs, and flowcharts to help understand or memorize an idea.
Ode mnemonics-The information is placed into a poem or doggerel.
Note organization mnemonics can be used as a memorization technique-use of flash cards and lists.
Image mnemonics -The information is constructed into a picture.
Connection mnemonics-New knowledge is connected to knowledge already known.
Visualization mnemonics the method of loci allow the user to create unique associations in an imagined space.
A wide range of mnemonics are used for several purposes.
The most commonly used mnemonics are those for lists, numerical sequences, foreign-language acquisition, and medical treatment for patients with memory deficits.
For patients with memory deficits
Mnemonics can be used in aiding patients with memory deficits that could be caused by head injuries, strokes, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions.
Mnemonics are more effective for groups of people who struggled with or had weak long-term memory, like the elderly.
In humans, the process of aging particularly affects the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus, in which the episodic memory is synthesized.
The episodic memory stores information about items, objects, or features with spatiotemporal contexts.
Mnemonics aid better in remembering spatial or physical information rather than more abstract forms, its effect may vary according to a subject’s age and how well the subject’s medial temporal lobe and hippocampus function.
There is varying effectiveness of mnemonics in different age groups.