Effects of 30 Years of Disuse on Exceptional Memory Performance

Volume: 42, Pages: 884 - 903
Published: Jun 1, 2018
Abstract
In the mid-1980s, Dario Donatelli (DD) participated in a laboratory study of the effects of around 800 h of practice on digit-span and increased his digit-span from 8 to 104 digits. This study assessed changes in the structure of his memory skill after around 30 years of essentially no practice on the digit-span task. On the first day of testing, his estimated span was only 10 digits, but over the following 3 days of testing it increased to 19...
Paper Details
Title
Effects of 30 Years of Disuse on Exceptional Memory Performance
Published Date
Jun 1, 2018
Volume
42
Pages
884 - 903
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