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Para citar O Independente sobre a fonte dos palácios da mente:
As it turns out, memory palaces like Holmes’ are a real thing, and have been for thousands of years. It all began with a lucky escape from a collapsing banquet hall by the Ancient Greek poet Simonides, who realised that by visualizing the room where the accident happened, he could perfectly recall the names of all his squashed fellow revellers. He later found a less morbid use for this discovery, by associating things he wanted to remember with walks through buildings he knew well.
O artigo continua descrevendo quantos atletas mentais ao redor do mundo usam essa técnica para competir em campeonatos de memória, antes de entrevistar uma coleção desses atletas.
Finalmente, para usar a bela conclusão do artigo sobre por que um palácio poderia ser útil:
In fact, the ‘Sherlock’ series 3 finale hinted at the prestige knowledge can have in the digitized world: sometimes the only truly safe place to keep information is your own brain. Also, knowing the number for a cab company is very helpful at 3am when your phone is dead. Long live the mind palace.
Para mais informações, você pode procurar o Método dos loci , que é o que o palácio da memória < é mais tradicionalmente conhecido como. Para citar o Wiki:
'The method of loci', an imaginal technique known to the ancient Greeks and Romans and described by Yates (1966) in her book The Art of Memory as well as by Luria (1969). In this technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject literally 'walks' through these loci and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any distinguishing feature of that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by 'walking' through the loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items. The efficacy of this technique has been well established as is the minimal interference seen with its use.
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