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Direct linkHu, Yi; Ericsson, K. Anders; Yang, Dan; Lu, Chao – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Over the last century many individuals with exceptional memory have been studied and tested in the laboratory. This article studies Chao Lu, who set a Guinness World Record by memorizing 67,890 decimals of pi. Chao Lu's superior self-paced memorization of digits is shown through analyses of study times and verbal reports to be mediated by mnemonic…
Descriptors: Memorization, Numbers, Mnemonics, Cognitive Processes
