How to Build a Memory Palace in Your Mind
Chapter 1

The shapeshifting brain

Chapter 2

The architecture of memory

Chapter 3

When senses collide

Chapter 4

The multilingual super-engine

Ch 2 · The architecture of memory
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007skaty The Method of Loci technique organizes memory using familiar spaces.

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Building a palace in your mind

007skaty An ancient Greek technique helps you recall complex sequences of information by mentally placing items along a familiar route.

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Quiz

Which ancient civilization is credited with popularizing the Method of Loci for public speaking?

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What is the underlying cognitive trick that makes a "memory palace" so effective?

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To hold onto the unfamiliar, we must anchor it to what we already know.

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007skaty The lives of people who never forget a day

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The people who never forget a day

007skaty They instantly recall what they wore or ate on any random past date.

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What type of memories are people with HSAM exceptionally good at recalling?

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What is the medical acronym for the condition of having Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory?

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Fun Fact

Card memorization: Memory champions can memorize the exact order of a shuffled 52-card deck in under 13 seconds using spatial and phonetic hacks.

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Mind Step Play
BETA

007skaty Match each thinking step to discover how to unlock your mind's limitless potential.

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In the Major System used by memory athletes, what are numbers converted into first?

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What is the current world record for memorizing a single deck of shuffled playing cards?

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Glossary
working memory (noun)
The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing. Psychologist George Miller identified its capacity limit as seven items to prevent catastrophic interference.

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007skaty Brain researchers study why adults cannot remember their earliest childhood years.

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007skaty Infantile Amnesia

Growing new cells in the hippocampus rewires the pathways of our earliest years

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What is the scientific term for our inability to remember events from before age three?

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Why does rapid brain growth in infants paradoxically cause them to forget?

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Gossip

If you could have a perfect memory, would you want it?

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