Mental athletes gathering in Boston for the USA Memory Championship

Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/07/13/mental-athletes-gathering-in-boston-for-the-usa-memory-championship/

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Memory Contest Comes To MIT, Where Brain Scientists Explain Why Training Works (WBUR):

“For the last few months, 13-year-old Claire Wang of Los Angeles has been training her memory with playing cards, phone numbers, software — “whatever I can get my hands on,” she says.

She’s been buffing up her skills to compete in an annual sporting tournament where the athletes are not physical but mental.

Known as the USA Memory Championship, the competition is in its 20th year and hosted for the first time this Saturday at MIT, which is also home to one of the biggest collections of brain scientists in the world.

“The point is, memory is a skill, it’s not an innate capacity,” says Robert Ajemian, a research scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain R…

Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/07/13/mental-athletes-gathering-in-boston-for-the-usa-memory-championship/

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Memory Contest Comes To MIT, Where Brain Scientists Explain Why Training Works (WBUR):

“For the last few months, 13-year-old Claire Wang of Los Angeles has been training her memory with playing cards, phone numbers, software — “whatever I can get my hands on,” she says.

She’s been buffing up her skills to compete in an annual sporting tournament where the athletes are not physical but mental.

Known as the USA Memory Championship, the competition is in its 20th year and hosted for the first time this Saturday at MIT, which is also home to one of the biggest collections of brain scientists in the world.

“The point is, memory is a skill, it’s not an innate capacity,” says Robert Ajemian, a research scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain R…

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