CH12: The Memory Man

1) The young Italian man calls it 'the art / ability of memory'.

2) It is a kind of memory that is connects / connected to what I see.

3) Gianni has a very special kind of gene / memory.

4) Researchers are now studying how memory and and learning / knowledge change the brain.

5) He practises continuously to increase / improve the power of his memory.

6) If there is a memory gene, Gianni Golfera probably / definitely has it.

Gianni Golfera is a man with a wonderful . He can remember a lot . In one experiment, people choose 60 numbers and someone reads to Golfera, who is the (3) blindfolded. Then, after hearing them only once, Golfera says the numbers from memory. After that, he says the numbers again, backwards this time. And again, he does it perfectly. Golfera has _ over 250 books and he can remember every detail of every day of his life. Doctors (6) why he has such a great memory. Is it because he received good from his family? of a lot of memory (7) Or is it the (8) practice? Whatever the reason, Golfera is making good use of it. He teaches classes that help people 'remember to remember