Word: mnemonist
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...drawn inspiration from great memory scholars such as Frances Yates, Jonathan Spence, A. R. Luria and Harvard's psychology department chair, Daniel L. Schacter, one wonders how she could have sapped those wonderful writers of their vitality. In comparison to Livesey, Luria's account of the Russian mnemonist Sherevskii is refreshingly direct and insightful, and there is more to learn about memory from a chapter of Spence's Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci than from the whole of this failed comedy. What this ultimately shows is that an effective psychological novel, unlike this one, is meaningful on a deeper level...
Harry Lorayne, a mentalist and magician, and Jerry Lucas, the 6-ft. 8-in. basketball player and mnemonist who just retired from the New York Knicks, have devised a pernicious never-fail system for remembering everything-from the names, faces and phone numbers of everyone in a TV audience of 400 people to, in Lucas' case, the essential contents of an issue of TIME...
...pages about his illness. The Man with a Shattered World is a selection of Zasetsky's writings, arranged and commented on by A.R. Luria, professor of psychology at the University of Moscow. The book is equally as remarkable a document as Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist (1968), which was about a man, otherwise rather ordinary, who suffered from a mind that could not forget anything...
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