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Contemporary usage

1. Link the key ideas of a subject and then deep-learn those key ideas in relation to each other, and
2. Think through the key ideas of a subject in depth, re-arrange the ideas in relation to an argument, then link the ideas to loci in good order.

Method

Applicability of the term

Spatial mnemonics and specific brain activation

Fictional portrayals

• Fictional portrayals of the method of loci extend as far back as ancient Greek myths.
• In the novels Hannibal (1999) and Hannibal Rising (2006), by Thomas Harris, a detailed description of Hannibal Lecter's memory palace is provided.BOOK, Harris, Thomas, 2006, Hannibal Rising, United States, Delacorte Press, 978-0385339414, 1–2,167,178–179, Hannibal Rising, NEWS, Martinez-Conde, Susana, Neuroscience in Fiction: Hannibal Lecter's Memory Palace, April 26, 2013,weblink Scientific American, en,

• In the first episode of Bordertown (2016), detective Kari Sorjonen explains the memory palace concept, and, throughout the series, he marks rectangles with tape on his basement floor where he stands to imagine himself at various significant loci in a case, organized into memory palaces.WEB, Recent Nordic Noir in Print and Television, Part Two: Finland,weblink Critics at Large, 27 March 2022,
• The television series The Mentalist, which premiered in late 2008, mentions memory palaces on multiple occasions. The main character Patrick Jane claims to use a memory palace to memorise cards and gamble successfully. In the eleventh episode of season two, Jane teaches his colleague Wayne Rigsby how to construct a memory palace, explaining that they are good for memorising large chunks of information at a time.
• In "The Reunion Job", Episode 2 of Season 3 of the television show Leverage, the criminal team must "hack" the Roman Room of a tech giant, as he's created a memory palace out of his senior in high school to remember his passwords.
• In the 2003 film Dreamcatcher, the character Jonesy has an elaborate memory palace which plays a major role in the plot and is shown several times in the film, depicted as a physical building that Jonesy is walking through as a way to represent him accessing the memories.
• In the BBC television series Sherlock, which premiered in 2010, the title character uses mind palaces to remember various things throughout the show.
• In Hilary Mantel's 2009 novel Wolf Hall, the fictionalized version of Thomas Cromwell describes "memory palace" techniques and his uses of it.WEB, Wolf Hall and the memory palace,weblink 2020-10-24, Nathan Carterette, 6 June 2014, en-US,
• In the 2017 medical drama The Good Doctor, series protagonist Shaun Murphy uses the Method of Loci to figure out various medical diagnoses.
• In the 2020 video game The Sinking City, the main character Charles Winfield is a detective that keeps points of interest in a mind palace menu.
• In the 2020 video game Twin Mirror, the main character Sam Higgs uses the mind palace in various points of the game to relive memories and investigate.
• In the 2023 video game Alan Wake II, FBI Agent Saga Anderson uses an adapted version, which she calls the "Mind Place", throughout the story to review cases and associated evidence.

See also

• Spatial memory

Citations

General and cited references

• BOOK, Bolzoni, Lina, 2001, The Gallery of Memory, University of Toronto Press,weblink 978-0802043306, registration,
• BOOK, Bolzoni, Lina, 2004, The Web of Images, Ashgate Publishers, 978-0754605515,
• BOOK, Brown, Derren, 2007, Tricks of the Mind, Transworld publishers, London,
• BOOK, Carruthers, Mary, Ziolkowski, Jan, 2002, The Medieval Craft of Memory: An anthology of texts and pictures, University of Pennsylvania Press, 978-0812218817,
• BOOK, Carruthers, Mary, 1990, The Book of Memory, Cambridge University Press, 978-0521716314,
• BOOK, Carruthers, Mary, 1998, The Craft of Thought, Cambridge University Press, 978-0521795418,
• Dann, Jack (1995) The Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci: Bantam Books 0553378570
• Dresler, Martin, et al."Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to Support Superior Memory", Neuron, 8 March 2017.
• BOOK, Dudai, Yadin, 2002, Memory from A to Z, Oxford University Press, 978-0198520870,
• BOOK, Foer, Joshua, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, 2011, Penguin Press, New York, 978-1-59420-229-2, Moonwalking with Einstein,
• BOOK, Lyndon, Donlyn, Moore, Charles W., 1994, Chambers for a Memory Palace,weblink registration, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 9780262621052,
• BOOK, Rossi, Paolo, 2000, Logic and the Art of Memory, University of Chicago Press, 978-0226728261,
• BOOK, Small, Jocelyn P., 1997, Wax Tablets of the Mind, Routledge, London, 978-0415149839,
• BOOK, Spence, Jonathan D., 1984, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, Viking Penguin, New York, 978-0-14-008098-8,weblink
• BOOK, Yates, Frances A., 1966, The Art of Memory, The Art of Memory, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 978-0226950013,