{"id":140,"date":"2014-05-19T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.neurecall.com:8888\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-06-03T02:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:00:49","slug":"memory-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/memory-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Champions: Better average retention than students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/glenn-carstens-peters-RLw-UC03Gwc-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" data-id=\"2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/glenn-carstens-peters-RLw-UC03Gwc-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/glenn-carstens-peters-RLw-UC03Gwc-unsplash.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/glenn-carstens-peters-RLw-UC03Gwc-unsplash-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/glenn-carstens-peters-RLw-UC03Gwc-unsplash-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@glenncarstenspeters?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Glenn Carstens-Peters<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/person-writing-bucket-list-on-book-RLw-UC03Gwc?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a <em>New York Times <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/19\/remembering-as-an-extreme-sport\">blog post<\/a> by Benedict Carey, research at Washington University found that memory champions have better than average retention of memorized material than college students a day after being tested on memorized material: they can recall about 75% of memorized words on the day after the test, whereas college students remember less than 5%. 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