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INDEX

Aborigines

Ambrose, Saint

amnesia/amnesiacs.
See also specific people

anterograde

distant memories retained by

infantile

retrograde

Amsüss, Lukas

Anderssen, Adolf

Andersson, Daniel.
See
Tammet, Daniel

Apache Indians

Aquinas, Thomas

Aristophanes

art of memory.
See
memory palace(s)/art of memory

Art of Memory, The
(Yates)

Asperger’s syndrome

Augustine, Saint

autism

Azoulai, Shai

Bacon, Francis

Bacon, Roger

Baker/baker paradox

Balmer, Bruce

Bannister, Roger

Baron-Cohen, Simon

BBC

Bedford, Edward

Bell, Andi

Bell, Gordon

Bible

Bidder, George Packer

books

history of

memorization of

as memory aids

on memory training.
See also specific titles

Borges, Jorge Luis

Born on a Blue Day
(Tammet)

Bradwardine, Thomas

Brain and Mind

Brainman

brain(s)

capacity of

of chess masters

computer and, seamless connection between

as energetically expensive

experimenting on

of Kim Peek

of London cabdrivers

of mental athletes

mysteries of

neuroplasticity of

part used while memorizing

physical structure of

random-access indexing system of

temporary turn off of

brain training software

Bruno, Giordano

Buddha

Buzan, Tony

appearance of

author’s interview with

awakening to art of memory

BBC series of

on education

home of

on intelligence

on memory

Mind Mapping

skills and talents of

travel schedule of

World Memory Championships and

writings of

Byblos

calendar calculating

Cambridge Autism Research Center

Camillo, Giulio

cards.
See
speed cards

Carroll, Lewis

Carruthers, Mary

Carvello, Creighton

Charmadas

Chase, Bill

chess masters

chicken sexers

chunking

Cicero

Clemens, Samuel L.

Clemons, Alonzo

cochlear implants

computer

and brain, seamless connection between

memory

speech recognition

Confessions
(Augustine)

context

Cooke, Ed

as author’s coach

birthday party of

career plans of

classroom demonstration of

family life of

home of

intellectual pursuits of

memorization projects of

memorizing techniques of

personality of

on remembering experiences

speed cards and

Tony Buzan and

at World Memory Championships

Cooke, Rod

Cooke, Teen

corpus callosum

creativity, memory and

cricket

cultural literacy

Cyrus, King

Darnton, Robert

Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments

Dean, John, memory of

deliberate practice

De Oratore
(Cicero)

Dewey, John

digital information, externalization of memory and

digit span

author’s

SF’s

test

Discover

Doerfler, Ronald

Dottino, Tony

“Double Deck’r Bust”

Down, John Langdon

Draschl, Corinna

drawing

dreams

Du Bois, W. E. B.

early humans, memories of

Ebbinghaus, Hermann

education

purposes of

Tony Buzan on

eidetic memory

Eisenstein, Sergei

Eliot, T. S.

Elizabeth (case study)

Émile: Or, On Education
(Rousseau)

EP (case study)

cause of amnesia

daily life of

emotions and thoughts of

eternal present of

HM compared with

nondeclarative memory of

unconscious remembering by

Ericsson, K. Anders

author, study of

Daniel Tammet and

expertise, study of

erudition, notion of

Essay on the Origin of Languages
(Rousseau)

“Exceptional Memorizers: Made, Not Born” (Ericsson)

experts/expertise.
See also specific types of experts

backsliding of

becoming

failing, role in

memories of

study of

Extraordinary People
(Treffert)

faculty psychology

Fellows, G. S.

“First Steps Toward a History of Reading” (Darnton)

Fischer, Bobby

Fitts, Paul

Foley, John

forgetting.
See also
amnesia/amnesiacs

art of

curve of

as essence of humanity

Francis I, king of France

Franklin, Benjamin

Frascino, Jen

Freud, Sigmund

FTD (frontotemporal dementia)

“Funes the Memorious” (Borges)

Galton, Francis

Great Mental Calculators
(Smith)

Greek literature, birth of

Greek number system

Greek texts

Greenstein, Joe “The Mighty Atom”

Groot, Adriaan de

Gutenberg, Johannes

habit learning

Hagwood, Scott

Haraguchi, Akira

Harty, T. Michael

Havelock, Eric

HDNet

Hebrew

number system

Hereditary Genius
(Galton)

hippocampus

Hirsch, E. D., Jr.

HM (case study)

cause of amnesia

EP compared with

study of

Homer

Horace

Howells, William Dean

“How to Make History Dates Stick” (Clemens)

Hughes, Ted

Hugh of St. Victor

Human Performance Lab

Idea of the Theater, The
(Camillo)

identity.
See
self/identity

Iliad
(Homer)

Illich, Ivan

images for un-imaginable

immediate feedback

“Immortal Game”

indexes

Institutio Oratoria
(Quintilian)

intelligence

artificial

memory and

Tony Buzan on

Intelligence

“Jabberwocky” (Carroll)

James, William

Josephus

journalist, author as

Journal of Neuroscience, The

journey method.
See
memory palace(s)/art of memory

Kanner, Leo

Karsten, Gunther

poetry memorizing and

at World Memory Championships

Keene, Raymond

Kieseritzky, Lionel

Kirk, Sean

KL7

Kolli, Ram

Kruk, Ron

Landy, John

language

song as structuring device for