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There's the loci method for memorization: The method of loci (loci being Latin for "places") is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualizations with t
by Fricken 10y ago
There's the loci method for memorization:
The method of loci (loci being Latin for "places") is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualizations with the use of spatial memory, familiar information about one's environment, to quickly and efficiently recall information. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, or mind palace technique. Many memory contest champions claim to use this technique to recall faces, digits, and lists of words. These champions' successes have little to do with brain structure or intelligence, but more to do with using spatial memory and the use of the method of loci.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Correlations have been found between memory and the playing of 3D video games, which also utilize our spatial memory. (Though wandering around in a video game is probably a subpar surrogate for doing the same thing in meatspace.)
https://news.uci.edu/faculty/playing-3-d-video-games-can-boost-memory-formation-uci-study-finds/ https://news.uci.edu/faculty/playing-3-d-video-games-can-boo...
I also recommend this BBC video of a persistence hunter tracking and running down a Kudu, just as an illustration of how walking/running, language/tracking, spatial memory, and planning/creativity are all tied together as a system that was once necessary for our survival:
https://youtu.be/826HMLoiE_o https://youtu.be/826HMLoiE_o
- z3t4 10y agoam i the only one that can remember where in the code something is located ? By remembering the shape of the code.
- viridian 10y agoFunny you mention this, I swear when I replay a video game with my girlfriend that I played solo before, while listening to a podcast or something, I can recall with amazing clarity stuff I had heard on the podcast at a particular point in the game. It's not a minor effect at all, it's pretty huge.
- archagon 10y agoHuh, I guess that explains why I recall specific passages in audiobooks when I revisit the places I walked while listening to them. Kinda problematic if I listen to an unnerving passage in a place I enjoy visiting!
- thefalcon 10y agoAbsolutely! I have paths in my old neighborhood where if I walk them I can recall specific passages from Ready Player One or Steven King's On Writing. If you need to clear a specific associative memory from a place you enjoy visiting, just keep visiting while listening to other audiobooks and you may lose that specific association.
- Sunset 10y agoAn interesting example is: playing World of Warcraft and watching/listening to a youtube video at the same time on another monitor. After months I've been able to recall exact details about the random video I watched by returning to the same place inside the gameworld.