Follow these links to various memory websites:

• US Memory Championship - Now in its 10th year.

• World Memory Championship - The most prestigious of memory championships.

• Memory Sport Statistics - rankings and records from competitions.

• Japanese Memory Convention - holds an annual memory championship.

• Memory World Records - world records in memory and mental skills competitions.

• Wikipedia entry on Memory Sports - describes the latest in the world of competitive memory.
  
  

  Academic Studies

• University of Texas - a short course on memory. Their memory techniques are not geared to competitive memory training.

• Memory Arena - "The Memory Arena provides researchers, instructors and students in Memory and Memory Disorders with information on the range of books and journals produced by Psychology Press and Routledge."

• Working Memory - Dedicated to the analysis of working (or short term) memory.

• MSN Encarta - An article about memory.

• Mechanisms for memory types differ (Article in Nature)
  
  

  Number Systems

• The Mechtnon System - an advanced system that assignes a single image to a block of four digits.
  
  

• Wikipedia - Provides a person/action system for memorizing a deck of cards.
  
  
• The Dominic Memory System - An excellent discussion of the Dominic System system by a guy who clearly worked hard on implementing it.
• The Ben Pridmore System - This system takes a lot of work (2700 images), but was used by Ben to memorize a single deck in just under 32 seconds.
• The Federico System - Published in January of 2007, this sophisticated system is an extension of the PAO method that requires only 13 locations per deck.
  
  

• Coming soon
  
  
  Blogs and Websites of Memory Experts
• Ben Pridmore (2004 World Champion)
  
  
• Scott Hagwood (Three-time US Champion)
  
  

• Research team identifies human 'memory gene'

• Time past, time future intricately connected in the brain: study "Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently, there's been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another form of mental time travel -- the ability to clearly imagine or "see" oneself participating in a future event."
  
• How to Win the World Memory Championship by Josh Foer
  
  
  
  
  Memory-related Patents
• Method and apparatus for training memory (US Patent # 6,641,402)
• Method and system for short-to long-term memory bridge (US Patent #7,011,526)
• Drugs to improve synaptic transmission (US Patent # 6,710,073)
• Method for design of substances that enhance memory and improve the quality of life (US Patent # 6,320,024)
• Automatic memory trainer (US Patent # 4,193,210)
• Computer-based system and method for developing memory skills (US Patent Application #20060234199)