170 Pages
by
Psychology Press
170 Pages
by
Psychology Press
176 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This book describes the first comprehensive experimental research program on an individual who exhibits exceptional memory. Rajan Mahadevan, the subject of these investigations, won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for reciting pi to 31,811 decimal places, can learn matrices up to size 20 X 20, and can produce memory spans above 60 for digits. Utilizing the methodology and theories of... Read more
Contents: Preface. Rajan the Person. Memory Span and Memory Load Tasks. Non-Numeric Performance. Number Matrices. Memory Search. Searching for Locations in a Visual Display. Priming Digit Strings. Comparison with Other Memorists. Overview and Interpretation of Rajan's Performance.
Biography
Charles P. Thompson, Thaddeus M. Cowan, Jerome Frieman
"This study is unique in that it is the first systematic study of the memorization process of such large sets of well-defined material; earlier works only investigated sets of 32 words, so the current material is 300 times larger than any other memory-span tasks that have been studied....Most useful for those who want to examine an in-depth study of memory, including types of tasks and experimental controls that were used."
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