Vedic Reciters/Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

[Stephen Hodge]

Steve Framer writes:

> Professors in the
> university would recite the text word-for-word in class,
> contradictions and all, and then comment on it.
Quite a number of Buddhist sutras translated into Chinese seem to have
been done in this way with accompanying oral explication and
commentary.

> A number of studies of famous memonists suggest that the
> construction of extraordinary memories comes at a cost: loss of
> creativity.

Was this not also one of the earlier criticism's on the "memory place"
technique even by Ricci's day ?  It often led to the acquisition of
many facts without true understanding.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge