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Memory training began to resemble the memory athletes, meaning this may not be a special talent we're born with, but one we can train our brains to do. >> what's hard for under the circumstances to remember is names, textbooks, it's all the stuff that they're good at which is not directly. but the techniques they use make it. they don't actually improve the memory capacity. it's already there. just find a way to use the visual memory. >> back m hur sin hershey, it's competition day. nois are running high for students like sophomore tuan. he's excited to meet the four-time champ. >> these stude...

Was in alaska when his grandmother died. he found out when checking his phone back at base camp. >> that hit me. i never had anybody close to me pass away. i said to myself, i don't want that to happen to me. i don't know if that's something i can prevent, but i'm going to take what i've learned about memory, and really go as hard as i can, and prove to people that, you know, you can train your brain. and to myself as well. and that's when i went crazy with it. >> memories for facts and events are centered in the hippocampus. the to recall the memory, the neurons reactivate. the study publishe...

>> the study enrolled 23 top ranked memory athletes, including boris. he helped design a regimen for the participants to train like the athletes do for 30 minutes a day for six weeks. there was also a control group. the brains of all three groups were then examined through a series of mris. >> you can do a lot of different things. first we looked at the brain structure. we could see by size of brain did not differ from control group. we looked at activation during tasks, which part of the brain gets more active when you use such memory technique. we were surprised that the brain's structure ac...

Your book is earning rave reviews, underwent you did a year of memory training so what did you discover on the beginning of what your brain was like for memory as you learned at the 12-month after point? >> well when i started this whole process i went and had my memory tested by psychologist and found out i had an average memory but after going through this year of training i ended up competing in this rather bizarre contest called the u.s. memory championship which involves memorizing all sorts of crazy stuff and ended up winning which really wasn't supposed to happen. >> so you put this tra...

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