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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything de Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Autor Joshua Foer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012

Apreciem modul în care Moonwalking with Einstein reușește să creeze o punte solidă între neuroștiință, psihologie cognitivă și istoria culturii. Interdisciplinaritatea este punctul forte al acestui volum; Joshua Foer nu se limitează la a prezenta niște exerciții mentale, ci investighează modul în care memoria ne definește umanitatea, consultând totodată experți în neuroimagistică și participând activ în subcultura „atleților mentali”. Este o analiză riguroasă a limitelor biologice ale creierului, dublată de o cronică jurnalistică a unei transformări personale remarcabile.

Cititorii familiarizați cu Adventures in Memory de Hilde Østby vor aprecia modul în care acest volum aduce o perspectivă mult mai pragmatică și orientată spre performanță. În timp ce alte lucrări similare, precum Memory and the Brain, se concentrează pe fundamentele teoretice și clinice ale funcționării creierului, Foer pune accentul pe tehnici aplicabile, precum sistemul PAO sau „palatul memoriei”, folosite odinioară de Cicero sau de savanții medievali. Autorul demonstrează că memorarea nu este un proces mecanic, ci unul care necesită creativitate și imaginație vizuală.

În contextul operei sale, această carte reprezintă punctul de plecare pentru curiozitatea enciclopedică a lui Foer. Dacă în lucrările sale ulterioare, precum seria Atlas Obscura, acesta explorează bizareriile și minunile lumii exterioare, în Moonwalking with Einstein el cartografiază interiorul minții umane. Stilul este cel al unui jurnalist de investigație care devine propriul subiect de test, oferind o lectură alertă, bine documentată, care transformă un subiect aparent arid într-o explorare fascinantă a potențialului cognitiv.

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ISBN-13: 9781594135316
ISBN-10: 1594135312
Pagini: 473
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Large Print Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele memoriei dincolo de simple trucuri. Este un volum esențial pentru studenți sau profesioniști care vor să-și îmbunătățească retenția informațiilor prin metode validate istoric. Cititorul câștigă nu doar tehnici practice de memorare, ci și o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care atenția și amintirile ne construiesc realitatea într-o eră a externalizării digitale.

Despre autor

Joshua Foer (născut în 1982) este un jurnalist independent specializat în știință, stabilit în Brookline, Massachusetts. În 2006, el a câștigat Campionatul de Memorie al SUA, experiență care a stat la baza bestsellerului Moonwalking with Einstein, publicat în 2011. Foer este cunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a sintetiza cercetarea științifică complexă într-o formă narativă accesibilă, fiind de asemenea co-fondatorul proiectului Atlas Obscura, o bază de date globală a locurilor inedite din lume.

Descriere scurtă

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.


Notă biografică

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.

Recenzii

Foer's book is great fun and hugely readable, not least because the author is a likeable sort of Everyman-science nerd whom we want to become a memory champion. Always fascinating and frequently mind-boggling,Moonwalking with Einsteinis a book worth remembering.
A marvelous overview of one of the most essential aspects of what makes us human - our memory ... Witty and engaging
Memory...makes us who we are...passionate and deeply engrossing ...The more we challenge ourselves, the greater our capacity. It's a fact that every teacher, parent and student would do well to learn. The lesson is unforgettable.
Captivating ... Engaging ... Mr. Foer writes in these pages with fresh enthusiasm. His narrative is smart and funny
[D]elightful...empathetic, thought-provoking and...memorable.
Riotous
[An] endearingly geeky world...witty and revelatory...[The] journey certainly demonstrates how much memory matters...Apart from anything else, filling up our mental storehouses in the right way can make life feel longer.
In this marvelous book, Joshua Foer invents a new genre of non-fiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory. If you want to understand how we remember, and how we can all learn to remember better, then read this book
One year, Joshua Foer is covering the US Memory Championships as a freelance journalist, the next he returns as a competitor - and wins it...How he pulled off this extraordinary feat forms the spine of this crisply entertaining book.
Combines erudite analysis, historical context, a mind-bending adventure and extremely suggestive sex - some of it involving Foer's grandmother.
A labyrinthine personal journey that explains how our author ended up in the finals of the US Memory Championship - a compelling story arc from sceptical journalist to dedicated participant. I can't remember when I last found a science book so intriguing.
[A] charming book...interwoven with informed exposition about the psychological science of memory.
A fascinating, engaging and very well-written book.
Addictive and fascinating...extraordinary. [Foer] attended the US Memory Championship as a journalist and returned the next year as a competitor and won...It is Foer's gifts as a teacher and a storyteller that make this book essential reading.

Descriere

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Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein is an astonishing journey through the mind, and secrets of how our memory really works.
Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, discovering the mnemonic ancient 'memory palace' technique first practiced by Simonides of Ceos over 2,500 years ago.
And only year later, Foer found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championships, alongside 'mental athletes' who could memorise the precise order of ten shuffled decks of cards in under an hour.
From the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is, from the ancient world to the cutting edge of neuroscience, Joshua Foer discovers a truth we often forget: that memory is the key to everything we are.
'Passionate and deeply engrossing ... The more we challenge ourselves, the greater our capacity. It's a fact that every teacher, parent and student would do well to learn. The lesson is unforgettable'
  Washington Post
'Captivating ... Engaging ... Mr. Foer writes in these pages with fresh enthusiasm. His narrative is smart and funny'
  Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
'Delightful...empathetic, thought-provoking and...memorable'
  Elizabeth Pisani, Prospect
'An endearingly geeky world ... witty and revelatory'
  Oliver Burkeman, Guardian
'A charming book ... interwoven with informed exposition about the psychological science of memory'
  Professor Larry R Squire, Nature
'Great fun and hugely readable'
  Mark Turner, Independent
Joshua Foer studied evolutionary biology at Yale University and is now a freelance science journalist, writing for National Geographic and The New York Times among others. Researching an article on the US Memory Championships, Foer became intrigued by the potential of his own memory. After just one year of training, he won the following year's Championship.