Drawbacks Drawbacks are typically considered uncommon with the use of mnemonics since they are used as a tool to enhance memory ability, but there are qualities that can be considered negative. For example, it can take a significant amount of time to learn a mnemonic device, but this device may not be used often enough for it to be worth it. While mnemonics have been shown to increase recall capacity,Tawalare, K. K., & Tawalare, K. A. (2014). Use of Mnemonics to enhance learning in the BAMS Students. International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine, 5(1), 55-62. the spatial context of mnemonics still contain the possibility of intrusion errors as well. Unsworth, N., Brewer, G. A. (2010). Individual differences in false recall:A latent variable analysis.Journal of Memory and URL Synesthesia, a condition in which the stimulation of one sense causes an activation or reaction of one or more senses simultaneously, can be used as a mnemonic device to enable exceptional memory.Synesthesia. (2017). In D. Batten, P. Schummer, & H. Selden (Eds.), Human Diseases and Conditions (3rd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 1966-1970). Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved from URL One of the most common forms of synesthesia is grapheme-color synesthesia, where an individual perceives numbers and/or letters associated with colors. Associating colors or words to letters or sounds can allow certain forms of synesthetes to learn new languages, lyrics, or detailed information quite easily.Shabir, Osman. (26 September 2019). Do Synesthetes Have Better Memory?. News-Medical. Retrieved on 1 July 2020 from URL When seeking to learn novel categories, synesthetes tend to use their unusual experiences as mnemonic devices, aiding them in their memory process. Watson MR, Akins KA, Spiker C, Crawford L and Enns JT (2014) Synesthesia and learning: a critical review and novel theory. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8:98. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00098 Furthermore, synesthetic imagery can work as a cognitive tool in aiding those with synesthesia to memorize and store language through their own personal coding.Lvovich, Natasha, "The Gift: Synesthesia in Translingual Texts" (2012). CUNY Academic Works. URL Those with more common forms of synesthesia may experience sounds as colors or words as having tastes; in these cases the sounds and words are considered the inducers, while the colors and tastes are considered concurrent. Grossenbacher, P. G., Lovelace, C. T. (2001). Mechanisms of synesthesia: cognitive and physiological constraints. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(1), 36–41. URL It is important to note that not all people with synesthesia necessarily have exceptional memory, but it is most often based on how the condition is used in regard to learning. If someone has synesthesia, they are most often born with it, however, it is possible that it may develop later on in life.Ward, J. (2013). Synesthesia. Annual review of psychology, 64, 49-75. Neuroscience For grapheme-color synesthesia, studies display greater white matter connections happening between the fusiform gyrus (area responsible for processing the shape of numbers or letters) and color area V4 in brains of synesthetes.Rouw, R., & Scholte, H. S. (2007). Increased structural connectivity in grapheme-color synesthesia. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 792–797. These types of synesthetes display higher functioning in the ventral visual stream, and since graphemes and words have enhanced spatial frequency as well as contrast information, greater processing of these features leads to quicker access to lexical information. Rothen, N. ( 1,2,3 ), Seth, A. K. ( 1,5 ), Ward, J. ( 1,2 ), Oligschläger, S. ( 2,6,7 ), Berry, C. J. ( 4 ). (n.d.). A single system account of enhanced recognition memory in synaesthesia. Memory and Cognition, 48(2), 188–199. URL
Drawbacks Drawbacks are typically considered uncommon with the use of mnemonics since they are used as a tool to enhance memory ability, but there are qualities that can be considered negative. For example, it can take a significant amount of time to learn a mnemonic device, but this device may not be used often enough for it to be worth it. While mnemonics have been shown to increase recall capacity,Tawalare, K. K., & Tawalare, K. A. (2014). Use of Mnemonics to enhance learning in the BAMS Students. International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine, 5(1), 55-62. the spatial context of mnemonics still contain the possibility of intrusion errors as well. Synesthesia, a condition in which the stimulation of one sense causes an activation or reaction of one or more senses simultaneously, can be used as a mnemonic device to enable exceptional memory.Synesthesia. (2017). In D. Batten, P. Schummer, & H. Selden (Eds.), Human Diseases and Conditions (3rd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 1966-1970). Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved from URL One of the most common forms of synesthesia is grapheme-color synesthesia, where an individual perceives numbers and/or letters associated with colors. Associating colors or words to letters or sounds can allow certain forms of synesthetes to learn new languages, lyrics, or detailed information quite easily.Shabir, Osman. (26 September 2019). Do Synesthetes Have Better Memory?. News-Medical. Retrieved on 1 July 2020 from URL When seeking to learn novel categories, synesthetes tend to use their unusual experiences as mnemonic devices, aiding them in their memory process. Furthermore, synesthetic imagery can work as a cognitive tool in aiding those with synesthesia to memorize and store language through their own personal coding.Lvovich, Natasha, "The Gift: Synesthesia in Translingual Texts" (2012). CUNY Academic Works. URL Those with more common forms of synesthesia may experience sounds as colors or words as having tastes; in these cases the sounds and words are considered the inducers, while the colors and tastes are considered concurrent. It is important to note that not all people with synesthesia necessarily have exceptional memory, but it is most often based on how the condition is used in regard to learning. If someone has synesthesia, they are most often born with it, however, it is possible that it may develop later on in life.Ward, J. (2013). Synesthesia. Annual review of psychology, 64, 49-75. Neuroscience For grapheme-color synesthesia, studies display greater white matter connections happening between the fusiform gyrus (area responsible for processing the shape of numbers or letters) and color area V4 in brains of synesthetes.Rouw, R., & Scholte, H. S. (2007). Increased structural connectivity in grapheme-color synesthesia. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 792–797. These types of synesthetes display higher functioning in the ventral visual stream, and since graphemes and words have enhanced spatial frequency as well as contrast information, greater processing of these features leads to quicker access to lexical information. 
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Brewer, G. A. (2010). Individual differences in false recall:A latent variable analysis.Journal of Memory and URL
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Watson MR, Akins KA, Spiker C, Crawford L and Enns JT (2014) Synesthesia and learning: a critical review and novel theory. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8:98. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00098
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Grossenbacher, P. G.,
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Lovelace, C. T. (2001). Mechanisms of synesthesia: cognitive and physiological constraints. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(1), 36–41. URL
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Rothen, N. ( 1,2,3 ), Seth, A. K. ( 1,5 ), Ward, J. ( 1,2 ), Oligschläger, S. ( 2,6,7 ),
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Berry, C. J. ( 4 ). (n.d.). A single system account of enhanced recognition memory in synaesthesia. Memory and Cognition, 48(2), 188–199. URL