Moonwalking with Einstein (chapters 1 and 2/ pages 27-123) Written by Joshua Foer

photographic (real or not)

training of the memory

long term and short term

image memory example

"Worlds smartest person" (32)

"highest IQ" (33)

Ben Pridmore's Memory (33-41)

memorize the order of decks

fifty thousand digits of pi

Ed Cooke/ Tony Buzan (40, 44)

think in more memorable ways

memory palace

Baker/ Baker Paradox

photographic memory

"in light of this one cannot say that any event was completely forgotten" (82)

a mutable organ capable of neuroplasticity

the brain is a muscle and memory training is a form of a mental workout

Penfield came to believe that the brain records everything to which it pays any degree of conscious attention

the man who remembered too much/ "This man was Unstoppable"

A never forgetting Alien

seeing words as colors or numbers and having a meaning to each word

Condition made him Unempolyable

brought sixteen taxi drivers into her lab and examined their brains

mental athletes

visual memory and spatial navigation

the brain is like a muscle

"never forget a telephone number or date" book (59)