The current world champion of rapid memory , the Spanish Ramón Campayo , has subjected his brain to the study of a team of scientists and psycho-biologists from the Cognitive Neuroscience Area of the UCM-ISCIII Joint Center for Evolution and Behavior. The objective is to discover what is innate and what is learning in the skills of this man, author of books such as Develop a prodigious mind, and capable, among other things, of memorizing 19 decimal digits in one second.
It is a comparative study between Campayo and a score of people, and consists of two parts. In the first, already completed, it has been found that the fast memory world champion perceives visual stimuli about 30 milliseconds before most people , "which is a lot in terms of the brain" according to Manuel Martín-Loeches, professor from the Complutense University and coordinator of this project. In addition, using techniques derived from electroencephalography, scientists have verified that Campayo is capable of responding about 170 milliseconds faster than other people to a stimulus (most take a total of 250 milliseconds to respond).
To clarify what is innate and what is not, the researchers will use functional resonance, which will allow a more in-depth study of the brain of Campayo and of some of his students who have learned "his techniques."
