Remembering, as en Extreme Sport (The New York Times):
“We found that one of the biggest differences between memory athletes and the rest of us,” said Henry L. Roediger III, the psychologist who led the research team, “is in a cognitive ability that is not a direct measure of memory at all but of attention.”
In short, memory champions are not only exceptional at remembering. They’re also experts at forgetting. To put it another way, competitors stumble not when they remember too little but when they remember too much.”
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