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Memory in sentence

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When I was four years old, I have a vivid memory of finding two pinpoint scars on my ankle and asking my dad what they were.
But paper has this memory; paper never forgets how it was bent.
I was able to use that material memory to guide the recipient through the experience of the card.
Matty invites people to mail him digital cameras that they've found, memory sticks that have been lost with orphan photos.
And all things being equal, older people direct their cognitive resources, like attention and memory, to positive information more than negative.
Because the memory of the Internet is forever.
And I think inspired by that memory, it's been my desire to try and bring it to as many other people as I can, sort of pass it on through whatever means.
And I thought, my God, how much must this music mean to this man that he would get himself out of his bed, across the room to recover the memory of this music that, after everything else in his life is sloughing away, still means so much to him?
In fact, I have just an average memory.
Everybody who competes in this contest will tell you that they have just an average memory.
We've all trained ourselves to perform these utterly miraculous feats of memory using a set of ancient techniques, techniques invented 2,500 years ago in Greece, the same techniques that Cicero had used to memorize his speeches, that medieval scholars had used to memorize entire books."
I ended up spending the better part of the next year not only training my memory, but also investigating it, trying to understand how it works, why it sometimes doesn't work, and what its potential might be.
This is a guy called E.P. He's an amnesic who had, very possibly, the worst memory in the world.
His memory was so bad, that he didn't even remember he had a memory problem, which is amazing.
And I went back and I read a whole host of memory treatises, treatises written 2,000-plus years ago in Latin, in antiquity, and then later, in the Middle Ages.
One of the really interesting things that I learned is that once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
One of the last places on Earth where you still find people passionate about this idea of a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory, is at this totally singular memory contest.
A few years back a group of researchers at University College London brought a bunch of memory champions into the lab.
There was, however, one really interesting and telling difference between the brains of the memory champions and the control subjects that they were comparing them to.
When they put these guys in an fMRI machine, scanned their brains while they were memorizing numbers and people's faces and pictures of snowflakes, they found that the memory champions were lighting up different parts of the brain than everyone else.
Of note, they were using, or they seemed to be using, a part of the brain that's involved in spatial memory and navigation.
This is my friend Ben Pridmore, three-time world memory champion.
It came to be known as the memory palace.
And he stands up, delivers his poem from memory, walks out the door, and at the moment he does, the banquet hall collapses.
This is advice that goes back 2,000-plus years to the earliest Latin memory treatises.
Let's say that you've been invited to TED center stage to give a speech, and you want to do it from memory, and you want to do it the way that Cicero would have done it, if he had been invited to TEDxRome 2,000 years ago.
The phrase "in the first place," that's like "in the first place of your memory palace."
And I went to a few more of these memory contests, and I had this notion that I might write something longer about this subculture of competitive memorizers.
The problem was that a memory contest is a pathologically boring event.
It was fun because this is actually not about training your memory.
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