Controversy

Dr. Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind , was unable to verify claims of eidetic memory (see sections 15.3 & 15.6) and considered reports of eidetic memory to be an "unfounded myth".

Support for the belief that eidetic memory could be a myth was supplied by the psychologist Adriaan de Groot, who conducted an experiment into the ability of chess Grandmasters to memorize complex positions of chess pieces on a chess board. Initially it was found that these experts could recall surprising amounts of information, far more than non-experts, suggesting eidetic skills. However, when the experts were presented with arrangements of chess pieces that could never occur in an actual game, the ir recall was no better than the non-experts, implying that they had developed an ability to organise certain types of information, rather than possessing innate eidetic ability.

Some people attribute exceptional powers of memory to enhanced memory techniques as opposed to any kind of innate difference in the brain. However, support for the belief that eidetic memory is a real phenomenon has been supplied by several studies. Charles Stromeyer studied a woman named Elizabeth who could recall poetry written in a foreign language that she did not understand years after she had first seen the poem.

A.R. Luria wrote a famous account, Mind of a Mnemonist, of a subject with a remarkable memory, S.V. Shereshevskii; among various extraordinary feats, he could memorize lengthy lists of random words and recall them perfectly decades later. Luria believed the man had effectively unlimited recall. But with today`s knowledge, it is possible that he used memory techniques too. See his article for f urther information about his methods. He might be a savant like the famous `rainman` who also has (verified) perfect memory.

How to memorize

• Have act out a multiplication fact story.
• Draw a multiplication fact story picture with glue, and then sprinkle colored glitter on it.
• Use colored pencils to illustrate a multiplication fact story.
• Have draw the characters from a multiplication fact story on a deflated balloon with fine point permanent markers. b
• Have the students design a banner for each multiplication fact. Each banner should include the fact and the picture. Display them around the room.
• Have compile the artwork or fact charts into a multiplication fact book.
• Have sculpt clay models of the objects and characters used to remember a multiplication fact story.
• Have color the multiplication coloring pages and organize them into a coloring book.
• Use crayons to illustrate a multiplication fact story.
• Use finger paints to illustrate a multiplication fact story.
• Use graph paper to design a cross number puzzle using the multiplication facts. (A cross number puzzle is a crossword puzzle with numbers instead of words.) b
• Have use chalk to illustrate a multiplication fact story.
• Design a mobile using the pictures from the multiplication fact stories.
• Divide a large bulletin board into many smaller bulletin boards. As you add new multiplication facts, display the students’ drawings on the sections of the bulletin board.
• Create a giant mural of the multiplication fact stories.

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• Controversy
• Development of brain function in humans
• Dreaming and dreams
• Examples of simple mnemonics
• External mnemonic links
• Eidetic memory in fiction
• Herbal
• History of mnemonic
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