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Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

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by Joshua Foer


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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 sy
stem

  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

 

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