by Joshua Foer
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
Ri
bot’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