The Power of Memory Techniques

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How did these memory techniques change with the invention of writing? This is, I'm working on this a lot for a new book. The one culture in the world that you can trace right from the very early pictographs and scratchings and things, right through to a script that's used today. It's the only one because the other two independently developed the Phoenicians,. which end up Egyptians and hieroglyphs and the Maya - they're not using them still those scripts today. And as writing came, the dependence on memory palaces and the actual landscape became much less. Once you get a large community, you no longer got the elders in control with controlling all the knowledge.

Dr. Kelly is a science writer and Adjunct Research Associate at LaTrobe University, specializing in the study of memory methods used by oral cultures, particularly indigenous societies. She is a mnemonist and uses indigenous memory technologies to commit large amounts of information to memory. She has authored several books, including "The Memory Craft," "The Memory Code," "Song Lines" and "Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies." She has a diverse background in engineering, physics, mathematics, information technology, and gifted education.

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The techniques indigenous cultures used to memorize vast amounts of information
How we can use the techniques today
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