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Memory palace9/19/2023 The idea is that you can mentally walk through your Palace looking at your memories to recall them. The memory palace technique is about changing your memories into images placed in a familiar mental location. The general idea with most memory techniques is to change whatever boring thing is being inputted into your memory into something that is so colorful, so exciting, and so different from anything you’ve seen before that you can’t possibly forget it. You’d do it through a process the modern memory athletes call elaborative encoding. This was a time before smart devices if you wanted information at your fingertips you had to put that information in your head. The Memory Palace is a device that has been used since the time of the ancient Greeks, to help encode their memories for easy retrieval. However, l et’s explore the specific techniques that Foer learned while studying the memory athletes. It turns out the mental athletes were purposefully converting the information they were memorizing into images, and then placing these images into a mentally constructed “palace” - thus the involvement of visual memory and spatial navigation.įoer goes into great (and fascinating) detail regarding the science of memory (which we’ve covered some before). Surprisingly, when the mental athletes were learning new information, they were engaging regions of the brain known to be involved in two specific tasks: visual memory and spatial navigation. However, during the act of memorizing, the regions of the brain which “lit up” were completely different. There was no difference between the brain structure of the two. Did that make the brains of these “mental athletes” physically different from yours or mine?įoer found research where MRI was used to compare the memory specialists’ brains to those of a control group. Scientists had recently discovered that your brain is much like a muscle, and that making it work could make it grow by creating new pathways at a cellular level. The journey started by researching memory and its physical effects on the brain. Intrigued, Foer decided to give it a try. While interviewing contestants for the article he was told that anyone could have a memory like these champions if they trained properly. What starts as a routine piece of writing ends with his participation in the USA Memory Championships. That’s a quote from the book Moonwalking with Einstein, the fascinating account of Joshua Foer’s journey investigating memory. It’s often because it doesn’t have anything to stick to.” “When information goes ‘in one ear and out the other,’
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