Bolton built a reputation for being abrasive but knowledgeable, with tremendous powers of recall.
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The researchers then gathered a group of 51 untrained people with ordinary powers of recall, and split them into three groups.
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Before reading the books, I'd taken eight memory tests that I'd found on various websites, to get a baseline of my powers of recall.
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With a few weeks of training, a group of ordinary people became as skilled at remembering information as competitive "memory athletes," who use symbols and associations to display seemingly superhuman powers of recall.
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I covered Martinez as a player, and while my powers of recall have eroded in all sorts of unfortunate ways, I ought to be able to remember a single distinctive thing he did or said.
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Later, in an email, Ozick questioned Bloom's account of the evening at the Jewish Museum, even as she acknowledged his formidable powers of recall, and said she couldn't imagine herself ever speaking to him so brashly.
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You'd expect the themes of amnesia or powers of recall to be prevalent in thrillers or in memoirs by trauma survivors or over-beveraged rock stars, but even literary fiction is getting in on the act.
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A Stanford researcher named Boris Konrad is a memory athlete, and he and a group of other researchers conducted a series of experiments showing how training ordinary people in memory actually bulks up certain regions of the human brain and vastly improves their powers of recall.
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Forth Bridge in 2007 At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay is watching a demonstration of the superlative powers of recall of "Mr. Memory" when shots are fired. In the ensuing panic, Hannay finds himself holding a seemingly frightened Annabella Smith, who talks him into taking her back to his flat. There, she tells him that she is a spy being chased by assassins, and that she has uncovered a plot to steal vital British military information, masterminded by a man missing the top joint of one of his fingers.
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His powers of recall allowed him to quickly memorize the pages of telephone directories, and recite the names, addresses and numbers therein. In 1929, he briefly became a Privatdozent at the University of Hamburg, where the prospects of becoming a tenured professor were better, but in October of that year a better offer presented itself when he was invited to Princeton University. On New Year's Day in 1930, von Neumann married Marietta Kövesi, who had studied economics at Budapest University. Von Neumann and Marietta had one child, a daughter, Marina, born in 1935.
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