Talk:Exceptional memory

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Regarding Drawbacks to Savantism
No! It is not "obvious" that autism is a drawback. Please see autistic culture. It is important to separate autism from negative features of or associated with autism. Also, savants are a case in point of why IQ tests are unreliable. Savants tend to have lower cognitive abilities in some, sometimes many areas of aptitude, but it is important to avoid the implication that they are necessarily less intelligent, when "intelligence" is a social construct. If there is such as think as "intelligence", then we certainly aren't at a point where we can claim to quantify it. Philolexica (talk) 02:26, 15 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I've rephrased that to "Autistic individuals are more likely to have savant skills so, for them, the most obvious drawback could be the drawbacks they link to autism itself." Maybe not an ideal rewrite, but I think some autists do find it a drawback. I do not find having Osteogenesis imperfecta to be all that negative, but I know of OIs who very much do. So I would imagine some autists do find it frustrating or a "drawback."--T. Anthony (talk) 12:36, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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Recommended Changes for Peer Review
I would propose the following edits to this article to improve its specificity and to adhere to standard Wikipedia best practices. --Jangofett27 (talk) 22:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Elaboration to the introduction to provide a short summary of the entire article. Personally, I would recommend including a brief summary of each of the sections, with about a sentence for each.
 * Add to hyperthymesia's drawbacks to include that affected individuals do not appear to have superior memory in other cases (and cite studies on their digit span and susceptibility to the DRM task.
 * Regarding the changes made by Wilchuskycb on "S," I think the historical context for it is a valid inclusion. In the interest of parallelism, I think it is important to include S.F.'s techniques for memorization as they were used in the lab, as well as the limited scope with which these mnemonic devices were effective (negligible effects on episodic memory, etc.)

Edits to Article
I will be attempting to make some more significant changes to this article in efforts to expound and develop it a bit more. I will link my sandbox to display the changes that I am intending to make. The major change will be adding a section called "Synesthesia." This is a section that is worth adding because even though synesthesia can be considered a mnemonic device, having its own section can elaborate a bit more on how it can apply to exceptional memory altogether. My goal is to focus on exceptional memory as a whole and bring the main topic together through these sections rather than give short summaries of other articles that can easily be searched. Here is a link to my sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spencershumate/sandbox.Spencershumate (talk) 00:18, 18 July 2020 (UTC)