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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
