Boris Nikolai Konrad: Co-Author of important brain research report

After 40 days of daily 30-minute training sessions using a strategic memory improvement technique, individuals who had typical memory skills at the start and no previous memory training more than doubled their memory capacity, going from recalling an average of 26 words from a list of 72 to remembering 62. Four months later, without continued training, recall performance remained high.

Brain scans before and after training showed that strategic memory training altered the brain functions of the trainees, making them more similar to those of world champion memory athletes. Memory expert Boris Nikolai Konrad and other top competitors in the World Memory Championships can memorize about a five hundred digits or a hundred words in five minutes. Initially, the authors of the study expected that memory champions might have notable differences in brain anatomy, the same way one might expect a world champion body builder to have unusually large muscles. However, they didn’t see differences. So there is another proof: Super-sized memory is trainable and long lasting.