Review of mnemonic devices and their applications in cardiothoracic surgery

Enhancing Creativity: Using Visual Mnemonic Devices in the Teaching Process in Order to Develop Creativity in Students

“…Our study was focused on the five dimensions of creativity (fluency, originality, elaboration, degree of abstracting of titles and resistance to premature close-up), from which elaboration [67] and originality are the basic dimensions used in the imagery. By definition, the visual mnemonic technique is a device based on the visual imagery [55,57,58,63], imagery has a profound relationship with creativity, enforcing the connection between visual mnemonics and creative performance. Using a rational argument based on the fact that "Visual intelligence increases the effect of human intelligence, extends the creative spirit" (Dondis, cited in [72]), Eriksson states that using visual imagery in education is reasoned on the fact that visual thinking is an important part of the type of intelligence for generating creative ideas [72].…”

“…The word "mnemonic" refers to memory or in correlation to memory. Mnemonic devices are techniques that can be used to encode information for better memorization of the concepts given [55,56].…”

“…Mnemonic devices are categorized in different ways. We will focus on the visual mental imagery of mnemonic devices [55]. The visual imagery of mnemonic devices implies the imaginary elaboration of the aspects involved.…”

“…By the definition of the visual mnemonics [55,58,63] listed above, it is implied that visual mnemonics also take the use of imagery process (the literary process of transposing the information gained from stimulus into literary text), but without an external stimulus. This and the other definitions of the visual mnemonics (the device implies a verbal enumeration, classification or definition of one concept (or more) and the imagery process of the component objects in their visual perception [57]) imply that the process must rely on the use of analogy, elaboration, combination, or feature listing.…”

Teaching Clinical Reasoning with an Example Mnemonic for the Neuropsychiatric Syndromes of Traumatic Brain Injury

“…A mnemonic device is any learning technique that aids information retention. The goal is to encode information for easier and more efficient storage and retrieval [5]. There are numerous mnemonic types.…”