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...
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