Monday, August 20, 2012

Lili's tip for the day

I think Tomas would be most interested in some of the info within the chapter about synesthesia in the terrific new book by BBC radio journalist and synaesthete Claudia Hammond, titled Time warped: unlocking the mysteries of time perception
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Warped-Claudia-Hammond/dp/1847677908
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Warped/dp/1847677908
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyLN6Ze5k0

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tip!

Tomas

Lili Marlene said...

Hammond is a synaesthete and has also done informal research on time-space synaesthesia inher job as radio science journo, so she writes with great authority. She briefly presents an argument plus evidence that time-space syn can be used as an aid to memorizing, including memorizing stuff that isn't related to time. This is completely consistent with research by Simner et al published in 2009. So syn could certainly be a natural advantage to mnemonists. See page 122.

Lili Marlene said...

Well, actually Simner's paper was about time-related memorizing - autobiographical memory.