Joshua Foer writes narrative non-fiction about memory, learning and the techniques people use to train abilities that initially appear extraordinary. Moonwalking with Einstein begins with Foer's investigation of competitive memory and develops into an account of his own attempt to train for the U.S. Memory Championship. The book explains methods such as the memory palace, in which information is attached to vivid imagined locations, while also examining the history of mnemonic systems and research on expertise. Rather than arguing that everyone possesses photographic memory, Foer is interested in how structured practice changes performance and how memory techniques were used before information became easy to store externally. His writing combines reportage, self-experiment and popular cognitive science. Moonwalking with Einstein is the central book associated with his name and suits readers interested in memory techniques, learning, skill acquisition and the culture of competitive mental performance. Read more Less
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