The memory palace of Solomon Shereshevsky
The man behind Alexander Luria's classic study The Mind of a Mnemonist
Solomon Shereshevsky always dreamt of being a hero. He spent his life waiting for “something fine, something grand that is to happen”, he said. Born in the 1880s …
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