Moonwalking With Einstein (35 page)

printing press

Psalms

Psychological Review

Ptolemy V Epiphanes

Pudzianowski, Mariusz

Pullen, James Henry

punctuation marks

Pyrrhus, King

Quintilian

Rain Man

Ramachandran, V. S.

random words

Ravitch, Diane

Rawis

reading

extensively

history of

intensively

memory and, relationship between

Montaigne on

as out loud activity

silent

remembering

Ed Cooke on

unconscious.
See
priming

Renaissance

research subject, author as

Rhetorica ad Herennium

authorship of

on poetry

Ribot’s Law

Ricci, Matteo

Rice, Joseph Mayer

Rice, Kenny

Richet, Charles

Rodrick, David

Roring, Tres

Rossi, Paolo

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rozyki, Vicki

running

Sabinus, Calvisius

Sacks, Oliver

Salviati

Samuel Gompers Vocational High School.
See also
Talented Tenth

Santos, Chester

savant syndrome

definition of

reasons for

S (case study)

compulsive remembering of

inability to forget

personal life of

regimented memory of

synesthesia of

Scipio, Lucius

Scoville, William

scriptio continua

scrolls

self/identity

Seneca the Elder

Seneca the Younger

SenseCam

Serrell, Orlando

SF (case study)

Shakespeare

Shass Pollak (Talmud Pole)

Siffre, Michel

Simonides of Ceos

Simplicius

Simpson’s in the Strand

singularity

skill acquisition

“Skilled Memory Theory”

Slate

Small, Jocelyn Penny

Smith, Steven

Snyder, Allan

Socrates

song, as structuring device for language

spatial navigation.
See also
memory palace(s)/art of memory

speech

speech recognition

speed cards

author as U.S. record holder

author’s work on

Ben Pridmore and

Ed Cooke and

techniques for memorizing

at U.S. Memory Championships

at World Memory Championships

speed numbers

sports records

Squire, Larry

Stanislavski, Konstantin

stardom, author’s

Stoll, Maurice

Stratton, George

Stromeyer, Charles

surgeons

SWAT officers

swimming

synesthesia

testing for

table of contents

Talented Tenth

Tammet, Daniel

Anders Ericsson and

Asperger’s syndrome of

author and

Ben Pridmore on

childhood of

epileptic seizure of

Kim Peek compared to

as mental mathematician

numbers and

online memory course of

as psychic

skepticism about

study of

synesthesia of

at World Memory Championships

tannaim

Test of Genuineness for Synesthesia

text(s).
See also
poetry

Greek

memorizing techniques for

Thaler, Joachim

“Theater of Memory”

Themistocles

Theuth

Thorndike, Edward

“Three Strikes and You’re Out”

time

memory and, relationship between

psychological

Titian

TMS

Torah

Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
(Bell)

transcranial magnetic stimulation.
See
TMS

Treffert, Darold

Twain, Mark.
See
Clemens, Samuel L.

typing, learning

University of Sydney

U.S. Memory Championships

author as winner of

author’s article about

author’s decision to pursue

author’s insomnia before

author’s participation in

author’s training and preparation for

Chester Santos at

competitors at

“Double Deck’r Bust”

Erin Hope Luley at

founding of

Maurice Stoll at

names and faces

new event of

Ram Kolli at

random words

scoring of

speed cards at

speed numbers at

Talented Tenth at

televization of

“Three Strikes and You’re Out”

2005

as undramatic

Use Your Head

Valentine, Elizabeth

Virgil

Vygotsky, Lev

Wagenaar, Willem

Watergate hearings

Wearing, Clive

Weightlifing Hall of Fame and Museum

Wilding, John

Wiltshire, Stephen

Winkelmann, Johann

Wolf, Friedrich August

Wood, Robin

Woodworth, Robert S.

working memory

author’s

capacity for numbers

seven-item limit of

World Memory Championships

2003

author’s participation in

Ben Pridmore at

Daniel Tammet at

Ed Cooke at

festivities following

founding of

Gunther Karsten at

length of

location of

poetry component of

records broken at

speed cards at

ten events of

as test of creativity

Tony Buzan and

winners of

World Memory Sport Council

world’s smartest person

world’s strongest person

Worldwide Brain Club

writing, invention of

memory and, relationship between

Yates, Frances

Yip Swee Chooi

Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School