My credentials in the memory training world are: Two Time USA Memory Champion 20 Years teaching memory seminars Held the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards in the USA for 2 years Sold over 50,000 copies of my memory training CD set, Memory in a Month Written a book on memory [...]
In 2009, I set the record for the most numbers memorized in 5 minutes in the USA. I did this when I became the 2009 USA Memory Champion. I memorized a 167 digit number. Since then that record has been broken but I believe that I can break it and get the record back one [...]
Often times you will need to memorize something that has letters in it. Remember that in order to memorize anything you are going to need a picture for it. So this is how I would turn letters into pictures. Please reference my memory palace page for all the steps in memorizing information A = apple [...]
Most of us have run into someone who knows us be we don’t remember them. It is embarrassing, but not uncommon. How would you feel if you NEVER could recognize people you know, even family members -or you OWN face? Many have trouble remembering names but what about remembering faces? Until the end of the [...]
Watching a movie in three-dimensions (3D) is pretty exciting, and it certainly makes the movie come to life, but don’t you wonder how our eyes and our brains process information when looking at the screen? In order to understand how a 3D image is processed you need to understand how 3D works. Your eyes only [...]
Working memory is something you use when you only need information for a short period of time (short-term memory). An example would be when you are trying to call a service repair shop, you look up the number and repeat it to yourself until you dial the phone successfully. Since you probably won’t need it [...]
In July of 2006 letters Albert Einstein wrote were unsealed and the public received a rare glimpse into his private life of this unique individual. Einstein’s stepdaughter, Margot Einstein, held the private letters in her personal estate, and decreed they remain sealed until 20 years after her death. The letters contained information about a person [...]
Fiction writers have been injecting cell memory plots into their stories long before transplants were even done. Austrian director Maurice Renard's introduced the idea in his silent film in 1924 titled, Les Mains d'Orlac, where a pianist lost his hands and they were replaced with the hands of a killer. The pianist then became a [...]
A recent study published in the journal Science indicates the caudate region of the brain, located below the neocortex, is the recipient of particularly large amounts of dopamine during working memory training. This research hold up the findings of other studies that have associate working memory training to the release of dopamine to particular areas [...]
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly half of all Americans 85 years and older have Alzheimer’s disease or some form of dementia and memory loss, and almost 5.1 million Americans are believed to be directly affected by the disease. They project that, by the middle of the century, 11-16 million people aged 65 and over [...]
