Moonwalking With Einstein

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Joshua Foer was born in Washington, DC in 1982 and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Dinah. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world’s wonders and curiosities. He is also the co-founder of the architectural design competition, Sukkah City. Moonwalking with Einstein is his first book.

出版者:The Penguin Press
作者:Joshua Foer
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頁數:320
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出版時間:2011-3-3
價格:USD 26.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9781594202292
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圖書標籤:
  • 記憶 
  • 思維 
  • 科普 
  • 記憶力 
  • 心理學 
  • 美國 
  • 心理 
  • 英文原版 
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Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives.

On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories.

Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination-showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the World Memory Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity.

Foer takes his inquiry well beyond the arena of mental athletes-across the country and deep into his own mind. In San Diego, he meets an affable old man with one of the most severe case of amnesia on record, where he learns that memory is at once more elusive and more reliable than we might think. In Salt Lake City, he swaps secrets with a savant who claims to have memorized more than nine thousand books. At a high school in the South Bronx, he finds a history teacher using twenty- five-hundred-year-old memory techniques to give his students an edge in the state Regents exam.

At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our individual memories obsolete, Foer's bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering becomes an urgent quest. Moonwalking with Einstein brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too often slips our minds.

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如果让我们连续观看几十张图案各异的图片,每一张停留在我们眼前的时间极短,看过一遍后,我们很难记住图片的细节,甚至记住个别几张的细节都很难;如果再让我们看另一组图片,用一副我们看过的图片和另一幅陌生的图片对比,我们却能很轻松的分辨出我们看过的图片和陌生的图片...

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假期刚开始时,看到TED上有乔舒亚·福尔的题为“人人都能学会的记忆术”的演讲,正巧那段时间正在看的英剧《神探夏洛克》中的“记忆宫殿”也勾起了我的兴趣,于是决定要翻一翻跟记忆术相关的书籍。 那名TED演讲者乔舒亚·福尔将自己从最初因采访记忆力竞赛而对这一领域感兴趣开...  

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1 记忆宫殿是真是存在的 2 世界脑力大赛所需要的“记忆能力”是可以通过科学的方法快速训练的,比如在1到n分钟内记住一副扑克牌的花色点数顺序之类的比拼,任何人都能学会得技巧,比如我初次自学了1个小时之后就在半小时内记住了50个随机排列得数字,而且到第二天都没有忘掉(...  

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不知讀瞭後可以多背些詩嗎

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思考不在於記住什麼,而在於選擇忘記什麼。(我等凡人跟視覺記憶宮殿什麼的是沒什麼緣分瞭吧……)

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非常有趣的關於記憶的故事和原理

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Old things but a really nice read. Brilliant writer

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