Memory craft : improve your memory with the most powerful methods in history /
Kelly, Lynne, 1951-
Memory craft : improve your memory with the most powerful methods in history / Lynne Kelly. - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. - xiv, 306 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
"First Pegasus Books hardcover edition January 2019" on title page verso; on publisher's website date of publication is "1/07/20".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- A medieval starting place -- Creating a memory palace -- Stories, imagination and the way your brain works -- Characters, characters everywhere -- Weird and wonderful portable memory aids -- When art becomes writing -- Lessons from the Middle Ages -- Learning in school and throughout life -- Does memory have to decline when you age? -- Memory athletes battle it out.
Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.
9781643133249 1643133241
Mnemonics.
Memory.
Memory--History.
Memory craft : improve your memory with the most powerful methods in history / Lynne Kelly. - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. - xiv, 306 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
"First Pegasus Books hardcover edition January 2019" on title page verso; on publisher's website date of publication is "1/07/20".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- A medieval starting place -- Creating a memory palace -- Stories, imagination and the way your brain works -- Characters, characters everywhere -- Weird and wonderful portable memory aids -- When art becomes writing -- Lessons from the Middle Ages -- Learning in school and throughout life -- Does memory have to decline when you age? -- Memory athletes battle it out.
Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand our memory.
9781643133249 1643133241
Mnemonics.
Memory.
Memory--History.