Reading as a god

Chapter 186 The Memory Palace and Synesthesia

Zhang Shan noticed that the scene presented in the 1024 bar in his dream was exactly the scene he saw in this bar for the first time!

It is still the bar near Zhongguancun Forest Park.

The sign outside the bar still reads "1 0 2 4", four abstract numbers.

Walking into the bar, the decoration style still looks like a cyberpunk style.

The popularity is still good, there are more than 40 people, in groups of three or four.

The people who come here basically come with notebooks, and judging from the sign, Xiaobai and Xiaohe are about half and half.

It was exactly the same as that day!
But the topics they talked about seem to have become things that Zhang Shan cares about~
Zhang Shan knew that these scenes were not what they happened at that time. The words spoken by these people were actually dialogues deduced through Zhang Shan’s thinking~
Soon Zhang Shan verified his guess. Thinking of the scene of the spring breeze with Lin Desha before, it seemed that the topic of everyone on the court changed from computer-related content to some sports-related content.

It seems that they are all praising Zhang Shan's heroic performance just now~
But the women on the field were belittling Zhang Shan's disrespect for women, although the tone of these people's words was quite bad!

But at this time, Zhang Shan was just very pleased.

Subconsciously, Zhang Shan still feels that the conversations of these people are not interesting enough, so it’s okay to play directly on the spot~
Tsk tsk tsk, so exciting~
Zhang Shan has no interest in being a war reporter!
As Zhang Shan's thoughts converged, everyone on the field also changed their style of painting!
These fully show that Zhang Shan's subjective consciousness can have a great influence on the "people" in this area~
There is no doubt that this is Zhang Shan's memory palace!

And here he is the unique king!

Speaking of Memory Palace~
Zhang Shan is quite familiar.

Memory Palace, or Method of Loci, or Mental Walking, is a memory technique with a long history. Its main point is to create a virtual space scene in the brain and combine various information Make a connection. ,

The concept of memory palace comes from the West and was invented by Seymour Needles, with a history of about 2500 years.

According to the ancient Roman philosopher Cicero (Cicero), the founder of the Memory Palace was the poet Simonides of Ceos.

It is said that when Simonides was attending a palace banquet in 447 BC, two young men came to him suddenly outside the banquet hall.When he walked out of the banquet hall, the young man disappeared, but the roof of the banquet hall suddenly collapsed, killing all the guests in the hall.

Since the corpse was bloody and bloody and unrecognizable, he could only revisit the banquet scene in his memory, recalling the names of the guests in different locations.

After this incident, Simonides realized that all events could be remembered by associating conscious images with location information.

Many famous people in the western world use memory palaces, such as Cicero, Bacon, Quintilian, Lully, Matteo, Bruno, Thin Tower, Leibniz, Pinoski, Sambrook, Mark Twain, Carnegie , Foster, Sigby, some of them are familiar to us, but not many people know that they can remember the palace.

There are even more celebrities who spend their lives hiding this method.

Zhang Shan knows that the so-called memory palace is a kind of memory technique!
Memorization is an important stage in learning rhetoric. In ancient Greece and Rome, teachers who taught students rhetoric should first teach them how to memorize information.

There was no paper at that time, so everything had to be kept in mind.

Paper is very cheap now~
The ancient Greeks had to spend a lot of money to buy an ordinary piece of parchment to record information.

So if they want to remember the speech, they have to use mnemonics to remember the manuscript.It is for this reason that the Memory Palace has been passed down as the basis of rhetoric.

Human memory is divided into two parts: "natural memory" and "artificial memory". Natural memory is the innate memory ability. Most people's "natural memory" is very mediocre. Artificial memory is assisted by building a memory palace and memory system. Memorizing information by oneself is an ability that normal people can acquire through learning and training.

Europeans transform abstract words into images called "representation", and then put the representations into places "position" in order.The more information you need to remember, the more locations you need.

In later generations, the memory palace has more influence than rhetoric, and rhetoric has gradually become speech or writing skills, so writing, expression and memory palace are inseparable.

At this point, it is not difficult to understand why Zhang Shan has a memory palace!

Whether it is writing, expressing or memorizing Zhang Shan, it is perfect!

The Palace Memory Method is a quick memory method introduced to China by a missionary in the Middle Ages.

This missionary is called Matteo Ricci. He came to the East from the West. It took him only half a year to learn Chinese, which is recognized by foreigners as the most difficult to learn. The book "Xi Guo Ji Fa", the memory palace training that has emerged in recent years is all based on Matteo Ricci's book.

There are many challenges in studying the memory palace. For example, the training process is time-consuming, individual differences are very large, and the imagination process is a "black box" that cannot be measured and monitored.

However, many studies still remind us that there is indeed a reason for associating space with memory.

Early brain scan studies on super-memorizers found that 90% of the subjects used the memory palace-style memory method, and there was activation of brain regions related to spatial perception during the memory process, such as the medial parietal cortex (Medial Parietal Cortex ), the Retrosplenial cortex, and the right posterior hippocampus.

Among them, the hippocampus is particularly special-it is responsible for storing spatial information and is an important brain area for converting short-term memory into long-term memory.

Why are the key links of spatial information and memory concentrated here?

One explanation is that the earliest key information our ancestors needed to remember was closely related to spatial location: where to find food, for example, and which dangerous places to avoid.

Only by remembering this information can animals survive successfully, so the ability to "bind and store" memory and location information is written into our genes.

The principle of the memory palace may be that through continuous training, it awakens our gradually dormant talents due to the appearance of external memory media (paper, pen, computer, etc.).

Not only that, but the hippocampus also provides the possibility for our spatial association ability.

A 2007 study at University College London found that if subjects were asked to imagine and describe several common scenarios they might encounter in the future (such as meeting friends or going to the beach), healthy subjects were Can give rich descriptions full of details, such as the twists and turns of the coast, the sound of waves lapping on the beach, and the feeling of stepping on hot sand.

Amnesiacs with damaged hippocampus understood the researchers' instructions to "describe as best they can," but their descriptions were much simpler and jerky.These patients mentioned fewer objects and sensory details, and fewer thoughts and emotions generated by imagining the scene-all they could imagine were fragments of the scene.

Morris Moscovitch of the University of Toronto in Canada says the finding suggests that the hippocampus is able to hold elements of a scene together to form a coherent mental picture.

Speaking of which, among the many scenes that Zhang Shan has experienced, the 1024 Bar is not a place he is very familiar with!
However, according to the scientific explanation, the memory palace does not have to be built with familiar scenes.

In 2010, Eric LG Legge and others from the University of Alberta in Canada designed an experiment. They divided the subjects into three groups, and two groups of subjects used familiar scenes and unfamiliar virtual scenes to construct memory palaces. The control group, on the other hand, did not use the Memory Palace and relied solely on rote memorization of vocabulary.

The results showed that whether it was the traditional memory palace or the memory palace established through the virtual environment, they could allow the subjects to achieve higher memory efficiency than the control group, and there was no significant difference in memory efficiency between different scenes.

It can be seen that any orderly scene with a strong sense of spatial orientation actually has the potential to become a memory palace.

The "palace" as a memory carrier is not so easy to build. It may require several hours of high-intensity practice every day before it is possible to form an autonomous memory habit after a long time. The "Encyclopedia of the Human Body" is completely unrealistic.

However, if it is purely for fun or brain training, it is still very good to learn and use these memory techniques appropriately.

Although there are very strict prerequisites for building a memory palace, Zhang Shan has successfully built it!
Moreover, what Zhang Shan built was not just a simple memory palace. In this palace, Zhang Shan
This bar in my eyes is not a simple memory palace~
When Zhang Shan condensed his consciousness in the memory palace,
When he was trying to think about the mathematical materials he read when he wrote the SCI paper not long ago.

Something strange happened!
In an instant, I felt that the world in front of my eyes had turned into another color. Zhang Shan felt that the numbers in front of me had colors. Real numbers were all warm colors, imaginary numbers were all cold colors, rational numbers were all red, and irrational numbers were all yellow. .

It seemed that the mathematical symbols swarming in front of his eyes had turned into picture scrolls.

Recalling the wonderfully written parts of his thesis seemed to him a wonderful painting.

Even though he is a layman in painting, he can still feel some disharmony in the picture where the logic is neglected.

Zhang Shan carefully memorized those disharmonious places, and is going to go back and make some revisions~
Although he didn't quite understand the exact principle of this, he knew that it was another magical weapon!

And this function is obviously more than that~
Zhang Shan tried to imagine some sounds, but he felt that the rustling of the leaves around him had color, and the sound of the evening breeze also suddenly had color.

For a moment, he felt that he saw a wonderful picture.

Although the scene is very graceful, it is inevitable to feel dizzy after a long time!

When Zhang Shan withdrew from this situation, the system promptly explained to Zhang Shan!

"The host can perform synesthesia in the memory palace~"

What is synaesthesia?

System: "Originally, the stimulation of one channel can cause the sensation of this channel, but now this kind of stimulation simultaneously arouses the sensation of another channel. This phenomenon is called synaesthesia.

Zhang Shan:? ? ?
(⊙o⊙)?

System, are you sure this isn't a dysfunction?

System: "For example, when you see red, you will feel warm, when you see blue, you will feel cool, and when you hear music with a bright rhythm, you will feel that the lights are flashing like the rhythm of the music. These are synesthesias!
In daily life, people often say "sweet voice", "cold face" and so on, these are also a kind of synesthesia phenomenon.

This phenomenon is very common in human society~
Color vision also has temperature perception. For example, red, orange, and yellow can make people feel warm, so these colors are called warm colors;

Blue, blue, and green can make people feel cold, so these colors are called cool colors.

……

Synesthesia is divided into many types, limited by the current level of the host, only supports synesthesia of other things and colors~”

Although the system didn't say much, Zhang Shan immediately judged the value of synesthesia!
Imagine if sound could be perceived visually, but taste could be perceived auditorily; it might be possible to see colored notes, taste sweet or salty songs, and touch rough ones.

There is no doubt that the so-called synesthesia will give a person a completely new perspective on the problem!
And a new perspective will undoubtedly give people a horrible intuition~
However, Zhang Shan soon became unhappy!

He remembered that the description of the system was - "There are many types of synesthesia, limited by the current level of the host, only supporting synesthesia of other things and colors~"

Zhang Shan is depressed, even if it is the synesthesia Zhang Shan associated with the sound, it can fully play its role.

After all, he has excellent piano skills~
But about art, Zhang Shan knows almost nothing~
Just judging the harmony and disharmony of the picture from a layman's perspective, of course, there are great limitations in what you see~
And this is only Zhang Shan can judge when the picture is closer to the aesthetics of oriental people!

If I see some western post-modernist paintings in the future~~~
Zhang Shan thinks it’s good if he doesn’t go crazy~
Postmodernism originated from modernism but rebelled against modernism. It is a criticism and deconstruction of the thinking methods that deprive people of their subjectivity and sensory richness, integrity, centrality, and identity in the process of modernization. It is also a reflection of Western traditions. Criticism and deconstruction of essentialism, foundationalism, and "metaphysics of presence" in philosophy.

And postmodernism holds that there are infinitely many levels of interpretive possibilities for a given text, representation, and symbol.

In this way, even if Zhang Shan can clearly see the composition elements of the same painting, he still cannot read such a painting!
No matter what, it is still necessary to learn to draw~
(End of this chapter)