How good is your memory? Is it shot, like mine? Do you know all your passwords? Can you remember what you did last Tuesday? If someone asked you to recall every item you bought during a recent trip to ...

Answer by André Müller on Quora. I memorized over 23 writing systems so far, starting from those very similar to Latin, like Cyrillic or Greek, over quite distinct ones like Arabic or Devanagari or ...

Actors often treat memorization as one of the more onerous parts of the business, and for good reason: It can be a real bitch. If the acting industry is like Disneyland, memorization can be viewed as ...

Looking for techniques on memorizing your lines? Wondering exactly how hardworking television actors commit so much dialogue to memory? Take it from (soon-to-be-Emmy-Award-winning) actor Sarah Paulson ...

Almost all of us could manage to memorize the role of Cornelius, the Danish ambassador sent to Norway in “Hamlet” (we’d just need to master a single line). But the title role is an exhausting marathon ...

Actors who appear in movies and plays have to memorize incredibly long lines. John Simon, a psychology researcher at Wesleyan University, summarizes why actors can memorize such long lines. Simon ...