Meet the champion who stored 80 numbers in 13.5 seconds
At the beginning of February, Vishvaa Rajakumar, a 20 -year -old Indian university student, won the Memory League World Championship, an online competition that put people against each other with challenges such as the storage of the order of 80 random numbers faster.The famous neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire, who died in January, studied mental athletes such as Mr. Rajakumar and discovered that many of them used the ancient Method of Loci "Romano, a memorization makeup also known as" Palazzo della Memoria ".The technique takes on different forms, but generally involves the display of a large house and the assignment of memories to the rooms. Walking mentally through the house he shoots the hippocampus, the engine of the maritime ride -shaped memory in the deep of the brain that consumed th...