Abstract
We analyze information rates associated with top performances in memory competitions and reveal three phenomena. First, in tasks with short memorization time, information processing reaches up to 42 bit/s with most of the time spent on reading, suggesting that mental associations are formed even more rapidly. Second, record performances show a remarkable concordance across time scales: the processing speed depends on memorization time as a power law. Third, despite dramatic improvements in scores and mnemonic strategies over the last decades, the differences in information rates across memorization tasks remain remarkably consistent.
It covers some of the content in this article Don posted, but has a separate line as well:
Assuming that each of the faces was instead a number, or as clearly distinguishable as possible, one could use the following strategy to solve the discipline. During memorization, one would first assemble the names in a canonical order or sort by corresponding number and then memorize the names as a list.
He is talking about names memorisation.
Anyone have any ideas what he is talking about? Because each face is not a number, it would presumably involve some kind of category system, so you can clearly assign a face a number, and then link the number to the name in locations?
Associating the name to the face, without locations, is obviously an extremely effective way too. In real life associating people to a letter place is quite useful (but not really memory sports speeds level).
