Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre – but real – perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I’m ashamed
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use
If you want to make information stick, it’s best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us
Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful,
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store
The best memorizers in the world – who almost all hail from Europe – can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute.
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