World Memory Championships participants, an annual mental sports event since 1990.

The novel, which is set in the present day, is concerned in part with the World Memory Championships.

Further cause for skepticism is given by a non- scientific event: The World Memory Championships.

Following the establishment of the World Memory Championships in 1991, regional competitions have been set up in numerous countries.

Andi Bell is a three-time winner of the World Memory Championships.

The first worldwide competition was held as the World Memory Championships in 1991, and has been held again in every year since.

World Memory Championships (annually since 1991)

He was also officially invited to participate in the World Memory Championships, where his feats would have been tested by independent international arbiters.

While the potential subject matter for memory competitions could be limitless, the World Memory Championships feature ten specific tests as follows:

The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of mental sports in which competitors memorize as much information as possible within a given period of time.

Anecdotally, the performers in the World Memory Championships all deny any ability of a photographic memory; rather, these experts have averaged 10 years practicing their encoding strategies.

Wang Feng (born 1990) is a Chinese mnemonist, the two-time winner of the World Memory Championships and the first non-European to win the title.

After the World Memory Championships, Daniel participated in a group study, later published in the New Year 2003 edition of Nature Neuroscience.

In August, she will go to London, where she will compete in the World Memory Championships event of the Mind Sports Olympiad.

Currently, all memory champions at the World Memory Championships have said that they use mnemonic strategies, such as the method of loci, to perform their memory feats.

Foer notes that Tammet, competing under his previous legal name "Daniel Corney", won the gold medal at the World Memory Championships' "Names and Faces" event.

The highest designation set up by the World Memory Sports Council, which organizes the World Memory Championships, is the Grand Master of Memory.

He put his own memory techniques to good use in his university studies, gaining an Oxford First, and at the World Memory Championships in London which he won in 1994.

Mnemonic strategies often lie behind the extraordinary feats of remembering achieved by memory champions such as Dominic O'Brien, the British author and eight-time winner of the World Memory Championships.

The Arabian World Memory Championship aims to create individuals compete at the international level in the Arabian World Memory Championships, and oversees Arab world title in the year 2015 memory.

Since the champions can win interesting prizes (the total prize money for the World Memory Championships 2010 is ), it should attract people who can beat those tests easily by reproducing visual images of the presented material during the recall.

One of the highlights of the Olympiad is the World Memory Championships, and next Saturday in Manhattan, contestants will compete to see who will represent the United States at this year's world competition in August.

He goes on to represent the US at the World Memory Championships in London, placing thirteenth and winning bronze in the "Names and Faces" event, but failing to become a Grand Master of Memory.

In December 2011, he won the 20th World Memory Championships again in Guangzhou, China with a score of 8477 points (in line with 2011 Millenium Scoring Adjustments) retaining his number one world ranking.

I asked Ed Cooke, a competitor from England - he was 24 at the time and was attending the U.S. event to train for that summer's World Memory Championships - when he first realized he was a savant.