Acting and memory
January 28th, 2006 by Mary
This press release from the Association for Psychological Science describes some research into the way actors memorize lines and what that says about memory for the rest of us. Evidently it’s not rote memorization so much as it is placing the lines in the context of the feelings, events, and actions of a particular scene. The kind of training that helps actors to memorize their lines is also useful in enhancing cognitive performance in older people. Thanks to Greg H. for telling me about this story.
