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
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)
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