Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Joshua Foer, Architectural Digest, Muscle Memory
5 Oct 2016
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People"s memories are no longer as strong as they used to be. Anyone can teach themselves to gain a better memory; it is a learned skill: easily improved. When is memory valuable to you today: exams, learning a new language, muscle memory guitar music in general, directions (roads, maps, etc. ) Memory palace: childhood homes, etc, architectural digest. Peter of ravenna: crafted different palaces, and had very good recall and memory. Remembering spatial configuration and where to go, has been engrained into our minds since the beginning of time. Faces: we have a good capacity to remember familiar faces, put a picture on a name or a concept. Joshua foer: moonwalking with einstein: his rendition of understanding how to get better at memorization in contemporary society, create very graphic images that would respond to names and faces. Epic poems: mahabharata, dev narayan, thousands of stanzas long takes days to recited the poems.
