Brain Attic Elementary

The sixth season of elementary cbs s modern day take on the legendary duo of holmes and watson recently debuted with the revelation that sherlock holmes s mental health has taken a hit.

Brain attic elementary. Elementary s1e2 pt 1 sherlock and watson brain attic care petie. I suspect that that the method of loci the older name for the mind palace technique was actually used by hannibal lechter before a holmes first did. The brain attic holmes s own metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge provides the premise to begin to think like sherlock by optimizing your mental resources. Every one of us has a vast storehouse of general information in their mind.

It can expand albeit not indefinitely or it can contract depending on how we use it in other words our memory. The brain has a certain space. When holmes was originally speaking of the brain attic he was basically talking about the brain as a space for knowledge and not an actual mental construct for memorization. Elementary 1x23 sherlock holmes vs jamie moriarty identity revealed.

We know things about every subject that has ever held our attention to any degree. Unlike a physical attic the structure of the brain attic isn t altogether fixed. He is suffering from post concussion syndrome a condition that will interfere with his ability to do his job and even to be himself. And even the person of the most careless observation has mechanically stored away potentially valuable information whose existence they may be completely oblivious to.

Posted jan 06 2013. To learn lots you must also discard lots this so that it does not fill up and start pushing out things you would have preferred keeping. The human brain is like an attic. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic.

The attic theory of the brain as for example popularized in contemporary culture by sherlock holmes in the tv series elementary is basically. Psychologist describes the neuroscience of elementary thinking.