Mnemonic wizards: incredible feats of memory

[Crazink]

Interesting video, but I really would've liked to hear why the prof thinks there's no such thing as a photographic memory (5:47) when there are people out there like Stephen Wiltshire. (He's autistic and can draw landscapes very accurately after only seeing them once.)

[MattWestThePossum]

what's a palm pilot?

[Nenaptio]

@MattWestThePossum Its an old handheld device.

[MattWestThePossum]

@Nenaptio I know, sarcasm ;)

[zawmbees]

Problem Atkinson, Shiffrin, Baddley, Hitch, Jacob, and Miller? :D

[metsoforte]

More people disliked this video but they forgot to press the dislike button.

[BooksBySterling]

He should have shaken her hand at least

[ciarepairs]

Is this all short term memorization, or does it work for long-term?

[louismcloughlin]

@ciarepairs I've just used these kind of techniques in my psychology exams over the last couple of weeks at University, for the first time as well, and they worked amazingly - particularly 'The Roman Room' technique! I managed to remember every single thnig I'd revised! Try it!

[joeamacek]

@ciarepairs works for long term

[EttEttEtt]

what about kim peek? other than that interesting stuff about the photographic memory

[Dolphidood]

the competition is intense! *BANG BANG* "I won the damn thing!!!" jesus christ... O_o

[Dolphidood]

0:37 lmfao! "omg girlfriend!" 

[desterrrrrrrr]

mental gymnastics lmao , good ass analogy~

[betta144]

harry loryne,is the best at it

[beryes]

this method require practice practice and practice , it can take a couple of years to become a chanpion , once you got it , you can use many kind of tecniques to memorize all data and also be able to remember them a few years later .. well there are many tecniques to be revealed this that girl uses is not of the best , but she is really good at it ,, GOT IT ??

[beryes]

uhhh,, she is cute heheh i could teach her some tricks too hheh

[saintpine]

@Jefferasmus

Thank you.

Incredible, this guy subscribed to youtube, made an intelligent comment and then deleted his account.

[liquidus2172]

i used tricks like that to memorize the periodic the periodic table of elements back in high school.

[itzkingswell]

@liquidus2172 i did this about a week ago :L

[bmorganf]

What content/concepts would be helpful for your students to memorize in your discipline?

[The4LA2Baker0]

darren brown is a master of this as well. He memorized a random book in about 30 mins and was able to site text verbatim from memory just by naming a page, paragraph, and sentence(watch?v=Ys0FP_7DbKo). To see how card memorization is performed in a more detailed description see (watch?v=L1mweFSqACU).

[nugget147]

@The4LA2Baker0

Derren Brown does use memory techniques as a magician, but many of his feats where he claims to be using memory are just magic tricks presented in that way for effect. Book tests are an example, he's not memorizing a whole book in 30 minutes.

[The4LA2Baker0]

@nugget147 OK... like i said to the previous person that made that comment; If he was able to make that guy pick that book out of ALL the books in that library, THEN made him chose only the sentences he knew, Thats even more impressive than a simple memorization technique. Occam's razor leads me to believe he really is memorizing. Also, my old roommate read 14 books a day using the same technique, he then wrote well received reviews.

[nugget147]

Problem with your application of Occam's razor... he isn't memorizing. The methodology of the trick when it's known is not more impressive than memorizing an entire book in that timespan. It only seems that way because you don't know the secret, and that's the point. Ditch assumptions and look at the facts. The "book test" is an old mentalism trick.

And if the technique you refer to is photo-reading, Derren himself says that it's pure bullshit and that speed-reading is just "learning to skim".

[The4LA2Baker0]

@nugget147 It doesn't matter WHAT the methodology is. What you are saying is; he gave the man free will to choose whatever he wanted, but in fact he was just choosing what Darren wanted him to choose.

How he did that is more amazing then the skill of memorization my old roommate had, which BTW was EXACTLY as Darren described his method, and my roommate had never even heard of Darren Brown. He learned it from his mother as a child. Not to mention many other people possess this same skill.

[thiswintertime]

@The4LA2Baker0 Derren*

[ImStuckInStockton]

LAWL 1:36 what a creeeeper

[cantavoidtrite]

What about people with synesthesia, don't they have exceptional inborn memory?

[Dynamikcheese]

@cantavoidtrite Psychologists now believe that synesthesia is not a real illness, they have found evidence that they are just normal people that just rehearse new infomation without knowing it so that it goes into their LTM, quicker than the average person

[outcastbeta]

holy shit amazing

[56jmoney]

I respect these ppl and what they're doing, but I'm not sure if the compartmentalization of information is useful in the long run - especially when you're trying to retrieve and correlate it with new information.

[TheSam5936]

Amazing stuff.. Im liking it :) Im practising these kind of memory techniques.. Two books i fully Recommend: Domenic O' Brien 'Learn to Remember' and 'Your memory' by Kenneth L Higbee.. :)

[rhummayuna]

@TheSam5936 Is it working?

[dietrichian]

Ben Pridmore does the card thing in 30sec flat

[drumlord420]

not only is she sexy, she smokes pot HASH=6 of clubs! HaHa!

[jmw4004]

Actually HASH would equal the six of hearts using the Basic System. The six of clubs would be CASH.

[Blackjesus3]

shes so sexyy

[wubs23]

This method works by increasing the retrieval cues of the item learned.

This therefor does not increase how well you remember something, but how well you can retrieve something that already is in your memory.

[sethy1]

Mass ownage.

[mjufpn]

it does both because stuff we dont retrieve is eventually lost, but the fact is that, much depends if we have the tag for retrieval installed in the mind. So in a way you are right. In the end its about orginazing the stuff we have in the brain so its making sence.

[wubs23]

did it help? ¬¬'

[IEPmatt]

lol that's hilarious, i'm so glad i'm not in school right now.

[jmw4004]

I competed in that same event with Tatiana that they are showing in this video (the 2001 USA Memoriad held in the ConEd building in New York); I came in third. People are right though. The techiques have limited use in everyday life.

[dirtyhyde8]

How useful is it in real life. I like to get more out of it rather than some party tricks...

[jmw4004]

well I can remember about 20,000 years of calendars using these techniques if you consider that useful.

[dirtyhyde8]

Thats interesting. How about remembering specifics of things like zip codes, phone numbers and names. How about formulas and astronomical figures. its very interesting stuff. Its like a hack for natural memory.

[drumlord420]

really?...I highly doubt that. Where's your video?

[jmw4004]

Ok then...seeing as how I don't know you, I couldn't possibly care less about what you believe. If you too want to remember 20,000+ years of calendars check out "The Memory Book" by Harry Lorayne and "How to Develop a Perfect Memory" by Dominic O'brien; that's how I learned to do it and the techniques explained in those books are the techniques I used to place third in this competition.

[Xsilants]

she used the link method

[TitoIsTheGreatest]

this girl is HOT...

[thecommonpatriot]

hahahah lmao, rajong is in the same room as me right now, that is pretty freaking synchronicitous.

[nicknamez]

mnemonic

[pylinth]

And here i was like a chump trying to record things in paper when people are able to simply use their brains :l

[quitejaded]

No, no, you still need to do that. People like this girl... remember, she uses a palm pilot? Mnemonics just make it easier for you to remember things, but you still need to do everything like everything else.

But trust me... mnemonics works!!! I scored the highest on a psychological testing because I used it.

[69e5d9e4]

Valentina Lisitsa has photographic memory. At least that is hat is says in her bio.

[mental177]

hmm.

sorry, but in terms of memory skills,

ANDI BELL > tatiana & co.

just look up 'andi bell card technique' and you will wonder why you found tatiana's video even slightly amazing

[jmw4004]

Actually I competed in this event and most contestants are using either the Bell technique or the Dominic O'brien technique. We aren't nearly as good as they are because we don't devote the same time they do in practicing the techniques. I came in third in this event but only read Dominic's book about four weeks before.

[BUzisero]

He is the half-brother of Barrack Obama

[mjufpn]

actually Barrack Obama is Michael Jackson with out make up.

[Spirituality1980]

lol

[christchurcher]

Plus one. best comment I've seen in a long time.

[makemehavefun]

They were slow in memorizing and slow in recall. Memorizing a shuffled deck of cards in order took me an average of about 4 secs per card at my fastest and with 100% total recall, consistently. Memorizing a few SSNs and as long as it took him? I can teach just about anyone how to do that and train/guide them to do it quicker in less than a day or two. A true test would be to memorize and recall 500 phone numbers with names in less than an hour. At my peak, I was doing this flawlessly.

[Albertxu2008]

Hey Guy,

I would like to learn your tricks. Are you teaching this for free? Nevertheless, I would like to talk with you on those techniques.

Albert

[bolshoibooze1]

ya but after memorizing a deck can you call out the cards at different numbers (not in order) ..like would u be able to call out the 39th card? 22nd? hmmm

[makemehavefun]

yes. rather than "linking" I'd use the "Peg" system; associating the cards to numbers rather then to themselves.

[jmw4004]

4 seconds a card is very slow relative to world standards. Pridmore does a whole deck in about 25 seconds.

[yourtube20061]

tell Prof. Anders Erikson, to watch the chimps doing the memory task.and ask him how he could explain that,if photographic memory doesnt exist.just that maybe v dont use it anymore.

[intermender]

A NatGeog series called 'my brilliant brain' explained the chess position thing by a process they called chunking - good chess players remember little familiar arrangements of pieces automatically, so they have less to remember when they have a full board and thats why that guy could remember the board when the pieces were not random.