Beth Benoit wrote
I thought it was of particular interest that none of the subjects interviewed
had ever been married, except for Marilu Henner, who had been married three
times. The poiAnd thnks nt was made that perhaps not being able to forget
(arguments, hurt feelings, etc.) may make a
How about a helicopter ride for your bride, Ed? I see that you have a
Helicopter Museum in West Chester, PA, so I'm thinking there might be some
available...
My anniversary gift was a seaplane ride (actually combined with my birthday
gift in October), and it was the coolest gift I ever got! It
Stephen's subject for this thread immediately brought forth from the
depths of my memory the title of a book, *Mind of a Mnemonist* by
Alexander Luria, based on a thirty year systematic observation of a
mnemonist, starting in the 1920s in the USSR. In his Foreword to the
1968 English
I often read some of the descriptions of synesthesia (to pure tones) from
the *Mind of the Mnemonist *in class. Neisser's *Memory Observed* has a
selection from Luria's book and a bit on a mnemonist who had a different,
but amazingly good, memory. It makes an interesting contrast since the
From: Rick Stevens [stevens.r...@gmail.com]
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I often read some of the descriptions of synesthesia (to pure tones) from the
Mind of the Mnemonist in class
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I often read some of the descriptions of synesthesia (to pure tones) from
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Re: [tips] Minds of Mnemonists
Rick Stevens
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:34:24 -0800
I often read some of the descriptions of synesthesia (to pure tones)
from
the *Mind of the Mnemonist
On 2 Jan 2011 at 5:30, Allen Esterson wrote:
Another example of this mnemonist's extraordinary abilities, from
Luria's records:
Would you like to see me raise the temperature of my right hand and
lower that of my left?
snip
No, there's nothing to be amazed at. I saw myself put my right
Didn't read the link but isn't McGaugh the physio guy into something like
this? One hypothesis I have on this is that people are keen to have good
memories if there is a common cognitive theme in their selective life
approaches and do not have too many clutter in their consciousness.I think
Thank you for supplying the link, Stephen. I saw the last half of that
segment of 60 Minutes and knew my Intro classes would love to see this
clip about the unique memories of these people, and how they're *nothing* like
people who say they have a very good memory. This is a whole different
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