The Craft of Memory

The Craft of Memory

Tschirhart's Phonetics and the Quest to Reduce Subvocalization

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Ronald Johnson
Jun 03, 2022
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Lance Tschirhart, an American competitive memory athlete and mnemonist creatively sought to modify the Major System in order to reduce subvocalization. He believed this process of musing on the details of phonetics was worth ones pursuit and consideration. He argued that the less we subvocalize, the quicker our image recognition becomes and as a result …

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