What is a person with talent and knowledge in many fields, like Leonardo da Vinci, called?
AnswerA polymath
Leonardo was a painter, engineer, anatomist and inventor, a classic polymath.
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The basics
What is a person who speaks many languages called?
AnswerA polyglot
Polyglot comes from Greek for "many tongues".
Going deeper
In the ancient Mediterranean world, what was a "talent"?
AnswerA unit of weight used for gold and silver
The talent was a large unit of mass, and the word later came to mean a natural gift.
What is the ability to name a musical note without any reference tone called?
AnswerAbsolute pitch
Absolute, or perfect, pitch is rare; most musicians use relative pitch.
What is spaced repetition?
AnswerReviewing material at gradually increasing intervals
Spacing reviews over time helps move information into long-term memory.
Expert level
Hermann Ebbinghaus is known for describing what?
AnswerThe forgetting curve
Ebbinghaus's 1880s memory experiments showed how quickly we forget without review.
The skill memory often called "muscle memory" is stored mainly where?
AnswerIn the brain, as procedural memory
Practiced movements are stored as procedural memory in brain areas like the cerebellum.
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