Moonwalking With Einstein (34 page)

Larrowe, Marcus Dwight.
See
Loisette, Alphonse

Latin

learning

autonomous stage of.
See
OK plateau

to draw

habit

memory and

three stages of

Lee, Bruce

Leibniz, Gottfried

Lemke, Leslie

Library of Alexandria

lifelogging

Llull, Ramon

Loftus, Elizabeth

Loisette, Alphonse

“Loisette” Exposed
(Fellows)

London cabdrivers, brains of

“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Eliot)

Lowndes, Jonny

Luley, Erin Hope

Luria, A. R.

Luyken, Jan

“Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two . . .” (Miller)

Maguire, Eleanor

Majdorf, Miguel

Major System

mammographers

Matthews, Raemon

Mayer, Clemens

medial temporal lobes

Mellor, Paul

memoria rerum

memoria sillabarum

memoria verborum

memorizers, professional

memorizing/memorizing techniques

Ed Cooke’s

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

mental athletes’

for numbers

of oral bards

part of brain used while

for poetry

rote

for speed cards

for text

memory boot camp

memory competitions.
See also
U.S. Memory Championships; World Memory Championships

demographics of

equipment for

international scoring of

training halted before

memory goggles

memory(ies)

artificial

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

author’s lack of knowledge about

capacity of

computer

creativity and

declarative

disappearance of.
See
forgetting

earliest

of early humans

eidetic

episodic

as essence of expertise

as essence of self

externalization of

intelligence and

lack of sleep as enemy of

learning and

long-term

mysteries of

natural

nondeclarative

as nonlinear

old
vs.
new

perception of world shaped by

permanence of

photographic

physiology of

reading and, relationship between

as root of culture

savant.
See
savant syndrome

searching

semantic

short-term
vs.
long-term

spatial

study of

time and, relationship between

Tony Buzan on

training.
See
memory training/memory improvement

without reckoning.
See
savant syndrome

working.
See
working memory

writing and, relationship between

memory palace(s)/art of memory

author’s

Ben Pridmore and

Francis Bacon on

invention of

Peter of Ravenna’s

plan for actual

reasons for success of

renaissance in

as risqué

secret key to universe in

Tony Buzan’s awakening to

memory training/memory improvement

author’s

basic cognitive processes of

books on.
See also specific books

chunking

classical

decline in importance of

elaborative encoding.
See also
memory palace(s)/art of memory

goals of

history of

mystical

as possible for all

quackery in

renaissances in

Mark Twain and

schools and

scientific literature on

utility of

Mensa

mental athletes.
See also specific people

American

brains of

memorizing methods of

motivations of

opinion on Daniel Tammet

scientific approach of

training halted before competitions

Mental Calculation World Cup

mental math

Merritt, John

method acting

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

Metrodorus of Scepsis

military training

Millennium PAO

Miller, Bruce

Miller, George

Mind Mapping

Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory, The
(Luria)

“Mindpower and Advanced Memory Skills”

Mind Sport Olympiad

mnemonics.
See
memory training/memory improvement

mnemonic tricks

mnemonists.
See
mental athletes

Molaison, Henry.
See
HM (case study)

Montaigne, Michel de

motor skill learning

musicians

names, remembering

names and faces

Nandagopal, Katy

Natural History of a Savant
(Richet)

Natural History
(Pliny the Elder)

Nature

Neisser, Ulric

neocortex

neuroprosthetics

Nixon, Richard

numbers.
See also
speed numbers

Daniel Tammet and

memorizing

prime

working memory’s capacity for

O’Brien, Dominic

Odyssey
(Homer)

OK plateau

author’s experience with

Ong, Walter

On the Shadow of Ideas
(Bruno)

oral bards, memorizing techniques of

oral tradition

oronyms

Ovid

Oxford Mind Academy

PAO

papyrus

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

parchment codex

Parry, Milman

Peek, Fran

Peek, Laurence Kim

appearance of

brain of

Daniel Tammet compared to

IQ of

sense of etiquette of

Peisistratus

Penfield, Wilder

perceptual learning

Perkins, William

person-action-object.
See
PAO

Peter of Ravenna

Petrarch

Phaedrus
(Plato)

Phoenix
(Peter of Ravenna)

phonological loop

photographic memory, as myth

Physiological Memory: The Instantaneous Art of Never Forgetting
(Loisette)

picture recognition test

Plato

poetry

as art

author’s attempts to memorize

Gunther Karsten and

memorizing techniques for

oral tradition of

Rhetorica ad Herennium on

Posner, Michael

Pridmore, Ben

on author

on Daniel Tammet

at Ed Cooke’s birthday party

memory palace and

mental math and

mnemonic systems of

scouts U.S. Memory Championships

speed cards and

weakness of

at World Memory Championships

priming

Principles of Psychology
(James)