| Description |
xiii, 156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Rajan the Person. Family and Early Life. Origin of This Project. Interviews. Typical Questions to Rajan. Rajan as a Person -- 2. Memory Span and Memory Load Tasks. Memory Span. Parallel Processing. Recovery From Articulatory Suppression -- 3. Non-Numeric Performance. Word Lists. Story Memory. Complex Figures Task. Psychometric Profile -- 4. Number Matrices. Matrix Learning and Retention. Testing the Paired-Associate Hypothesis -- 5. Memory Search. Searching for Digits at Specific Locations. Searching for Sequences: Evidence for Chunking -- 6. Searching for Locations in a Visual Display. Searching for Locations in a Visual Display. A Process Model for Locating Digits in a Visual Display. Applying the Model to Rajan's Memory Search -- 7. Priming Digit Strings. Repetition Priming. Similarity and Location Primes. Sequences With Missing Elements -- 8. Comparison With Other Memorists. Memorists. Recapitulation. The Memorists and Ericsson's Theory of Skilled Memory |
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Motivation: The Why Question -- 9. Overview and Interpretation of Rajan's Performance. Chunks Produced by Rote Learning. Rajan's Retrieval Strategies in a Large, Well-Defined Memory Set. Visual Search in the First 20,000 Digits of pi. Matrix Learning: Long-Term Retention and Rehearsal. Memory Span. Rajan's Performance and Ericsson's Skilled Memory Theory. Great Talent or Extensive Practice? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-148) and indexes |
| Subject |
Mahadevan, Rajan.
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Memory -- Case studies.
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Memory.
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Mnemonics.
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| Author |
Cowan, Thaddeus M.
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Frieman, Jerome.
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| LC no. |
93002417 |
| ISBN |
0805812369 (acid-free paper) |
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