Cosmos Rossellius

Cosmos Rossellius (died 1578) was a Florentine Dominican friar who wrote a book about memory.

Theasurus artificosae memoria was published in Venice in 1579. He gives a Dante-esque description of hell as a memory space system^[1] arranged around a well at the top of a flight of steps consisting of the punishments for heretics, Jews, idolators and hypocrites. In contrast heaven is depicted as the throne of Christ, surrounded by a celestial hierarchy of Apostles, Patriarchs, Prophets, Martyrs, Confessors, virgins, Holy Hebrews and an enormous array of saints. He also advocates the use of the constellations as loci. He also discusses the visual alphabet,^[2] describing it as a digital alphabet, or a manual of signs for the fingers. The five woodcuts contain the earliest known representation of a digital sign language.

References

↑ Auster, Paul (2005). The Invention of Solitude. New York: Picador. p. 71.
↑ Pal, B. K. (2011). Education Psychology. Delhi: Pinnacle Technology.

Human memory

Basic concepts

Types

Sensory	Echoic Eidetic Eyewitness Iconic Motor learning Visual

Short-term	"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" Working memory

Intermediate

Long-term	Active recall Autobiographical Declarative Episodic Explicit Flashbulb Hyperthymesia Implicit Meaningful learning Personal-event Procedural Rote learning Selective retention Semantic Tip of the tongue

Forgetting

Memory errors

Research

In society