The forty known pieces preserved among the Uriankhai Mongolians are transmitted exclusively through the memory of successive generations - a feature making this art highly vulnerable to the risk of disappearing.

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Dr Ericsson believes that prodigies get such impressive mileage out of their working memories by placing important pieces of information into their long-term memories in a way that makes them accessible to working-memory processes.

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