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Alex Mullen (memory athlete)
Alex Mullen (born March 3, 1992) is an American memory grandmaster, medical student, and three-time world memory champion.
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Anamonic
An anamonic is a form of mnemonic device frequently employed by tournament Scrabble players (the word anamonic is itself a portmanteau of anagram and mnemonic).
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).
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Andi Bell
Andi Bell is a three-time winner of the World Memory Championships.
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Art of memory
The art of memory (Latin: ars memoriae) is any of a number of loosely associated mnemonic principles and techniques used to organize memory impressions, improve recall, and assist in the combination and 'invention' of ideas.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Ben Pridmore
Ben Pridmore is a former world memory champion, memory sport competitor and accountant.
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Chunking (psychology)
In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which individual pieces of information are bound together into a meaningful whole (Neath & Surprenant, 2003).
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Clemens Mayer
Clemens Mayer (born September 25, 1985 in Brannenburg) is a German memory sports person.
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Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet (born 31 January 1979) is an English essayist, novelist, translator, and autistic savant.
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Dominic O'Brien
Dominic O'Brien (10 August 1957) is a British mnemonist and an author of memory-related books.
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Dominic system
The Dominic system is a mnemonic system used to remember sequences of digits similar to the mnemonic major system.
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Ed Cooke (author)
Edward "Ed" Cooke (born 1982) is a British Entrepreneur and author of Remember, Remember: Learn the Stuff You Thought You Never Could.
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Eidetic memory
Eidetic memory (sometimes called photographic memory) is an ability to vividly recall images from memory after only a few instances of exposure, with high precision for a brief time after exposure,The terms eidetic memory and photographic memory are often used interchangeably.
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Elaborative encoding
Elaborative encoding is a mnemonic that relates to-be-remembered information to pre-existing memories and knowledge.
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Exceptional memory
The capacity for exceptional memory can take several forms.
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Extreme Memory Tournament
Memory League is a memory training and competition platform originally founded and created by Nelson Dellis and Simon Orton under the name Extreme Memory Tournament (XMT).
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Grand Master of Memory
First awarded in 1995, the title Grand Master of Memory (GMM) was previously awarded to people who are able to successfully negotiate the following three memory feats.
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Gunther Karsten
Gunther Karsten (born 23 September 1961) is a German memory sport competitor and author.
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Interference theory
Interference theory is a theory regarding human memory.
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Japanese wordplay
Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect.
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Johannes Mallow
Johannes Mallow (born June 7, 1981 Brandenburg an der Havel) is a German memory sportsman.
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Jonas von Essen
Jonas von Essen (born 24 April 1991) is a Swedish man who became two-time world memory champion.
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Jonathan Hancock
Jonathan Bruce Hancock is the Founder of The Junior Memory Championship.
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Joshua Foer
Joshua Foer (born September 23, 1982) is a freelance journalist living in New Haven, Connecticut, with a primary focus on hard sciences.
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Linkword
Linkword is a mnemonic system promoted by Michael Gruneberg since at least the early 1980s for learning languages based on the similarity of the sounds of words.
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Memory
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
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Memrise
Memrise is a user-generated learning platform which uses flashcards as memory aids.
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Mentalism
Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities.
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Method of loci
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.
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Mind sport
A mind sport, or as it's more commonly referred to an altsport, is a game of skill where the competition is based on a particular type of the intellectual ability as opposed to physical exercise.
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic (the first "m" is silent) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory.
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Mnemonic link system
A mnemonic link system, sometimes also known as a chain method, is a method of remembering lists that is based on creating an association between the elements of that list.
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Mnemonic major system
The major system (also called the phonetic number system, phonetic mnemonic system, or Herigone's mnemonic system) is a mnemonic technique used to aid in memorizing numbers.
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Mnemonic peg system
The mnemonic peg system, invented by Henry Herdson is a memory aid that works by creating mental associations between two concrete objects in a one-to-one fashion that will later be applied to to-be-remembered information.
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Mnemonist
The title mnemonist (derived from the term mnemonic) refers to an individual with the ability to remember and recall unusually long lists of data, such as unfamiliar names, lists of numbers, entries in books, etc.
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Nelson Dellis
Nelson Charles Dellis (born February 4, 1984) is an American memory athlete, Grandmaster of Memory, mountaineer, published author, public speaker, and consultant.
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Pi
The number is a mathematical constant.
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Piphilology
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant pi.
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Ron White (memory expert)
Ron White is a mnemonist, and was the USA Memory Champion in 2009 and 2010.
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Serial-position effect
Serial-position effect is the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.
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Spacing effect
The spacing effect is the phenomenon whereby learning is greater when studying is spread out over time, as opposed to studying the same amount of content in a single session.
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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" is one of the most highly cited papers in psychology.
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USA Memory Championship
The USA Memory Championship is an annual competition that takes place every spring in New York City, and was founded by Tony Dottino, President of Dottino Consulting Group, Inc., and Marshall Tarley in the year 1997.
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Von Restorff effect
The von Restorff effect, also known as the "isolation effect", predicts that when multiple homogeneous stimuli are presented, the stimulus that differs from the rest is more likely to be remembered.
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Wang Feng (memoirist)
Wang Feng (born 1990) is a Chinese mnemonist, the two-time winner of the World Memory Championships and the first non-European to win the title.
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World Memory Championships
The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of memory sports in which competitors memorize as much information as possible within a given period of time.
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Yanjaa
Yanjaa Wintersoul, known mononymously as Yanjaa (Алтансүхийн Янжиндулам Altansükhiyn Yanzhindulam; born December 26, 1993) is a Mongolian-Swedish double world-record holding memory athlete, public speaker, and polyglot.
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Zeigarnik effect
In psychology, the Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_sport
