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Don’t Forget: You, Too, Can Acquire a Super Memory

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Learning a memorization technique used by elite memory athletes leads to widespread changes in brain wiring.

March 9, 2017 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Don't Forget: You, Too, Can Acquire a Super Memory Learning a memorization technique used by elite memory athletes leads to widespread changes in brain wiring By Catherine Caruso Elite memory athletes are not so different from their peers in any other sport: They face off in intense competitions where they execute seemingly superhuman feats such as memorizing a string of 500 digits in five minutes. Most memory athletes credit their success to hours of memorization-technique practice. One lingering question, though, is whether memory champs su

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Don’t Forget: You, Too, Can Acquire a Super Memory

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