{"id":12291,"date":"2023-11-19T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/among-the-memory-athletes-1971\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T05:37:17","slug":"among-the-memory-athletes-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/among-the-memory-athletes-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Among the \u2018memory athletes\u2019, 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could a computer ever rival their astonishing feats? The idea seemed preposterous<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Your memory could fill the Albert Hall,\u2019 proclaimed the <em>Observer<\/em> on 21 March 1971, explaining that \u2018a computer to perform even the simpler functions of the human brain would need to be at least as big as the Albert Hall.\u2019 Now we outsource much of our memory to devices that slip in our back pockets, what can an exploration of extraordinary \u2018memory athletes\u2019 still tell us about how we remember?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Clare\u2019 (a pseudonym) discovered her abilities were exceptional while eavesdropping on a Harvard researcher exploring the power of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/gilden\/files\/2016\/04\/Stromeyer.pdf\" title=\"\">eidetic<\/a>\u2019 imagery \u2013 perfect visual recall. \u2018I think I can do that,\u2019 she said. She was right: Dr Charles Stromeyer\u2019s research showed she could \u2018scan a card with 10,000 dots for one minute and recall it a few minutes later in full detail.\u2019 Her ability to recall abstract visual patterns contrasted with the celebrated Russian \u2018mnemonist\u2019 Solomon Shereshevskii. Shereshevskii\u2019s spectacularly intense synaesthesia both helped and hindered him in constructing the elaborate mental stories he used to remember \u2018almost anything for almost any time\u2019, from Dante\u2019s <em>Inferno<\/em> to lengthy strings of random numbers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/nov\/19\/from-the-observer-archive-the-memory-athletes-1971\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/57933e6bbe9bdd6daf093e6b42f2ae54efc063ee\/195_1653_2604_1562\/master\/2604.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ac95541c7c353b97edf945fd5aa1a600\" title=\"Among the \u2018memory athletes\u2019, 1971\" \/>Could a computer ever rival their astonishing feats? The idea seemed preposterous<br \/>\n\u2018Your memory could fill the Albert Hall,\u2019 proclaimed the Observer on 21 March 1971, explaining that \u2018a computer to perform even the simpler functions of the human brain would need to be at least as big as the Albert Hall.\u2019 Now we outsource much of our memory to devices that slip in our back pockets, what can an exploration of extraordinary \u2018memory athletes\u2019 still tell us about how we remember?<br \/>\n\u2018Clare\u2019 (a pseudonym) discovered her abilities were exceptional while eavesdropping on a Harvard researcher exploring the power of \u2018eidetic\u2019 imagery \u2013 perfect visual recall. \u2018I think I can do that,\u2019 she said. She was right: Dr Charles Stromeyer\u2019s research showed she could \u2018scan a card with 10,000 dots for one minute and recall it a few minutes later in full detail.\u2019 Her ability to recall abstract visual patterns contrasted with the celebrated Russian \u2018mnemonist\u2019 Solomon Shereshevskii. Shereshevskii\u2019s spectacularly intense synaesthesia both helped and hindered him in constructing the elaborate mental stories he used to remember \u2018almost anything for almost any time\u2019, from Dante\u2019s Inferno to lengthy strings of random numbers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could a computer ever rival their astonishing feats? The idea seemed preposterous \u2018Your memory could fill the Albert Hall,\u2019 proclaimed the Observer on 21 March 1971, explaining that \u2018a computer to perform even the simpler functions of the human brain would need to be at least as big as the Albert Hall.\u2019 Now we outsource &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/among-the-memory-athletes-1971\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Among the \u2018memory athletes\u2019, 1971<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}