The attic can be broken down roughly speaking into two components.
Brain attic mind palace.
Of course for the updated bbc series the attic mentioned in the original literature was updated to a larger grander space befitting the name of mind palace.
A mind palace certainly sounds grander befitting holmes and his outsized ego as watson notes in season 2 of sherlock.
Simply because the material is not grand enough nor well organised enough to be classed as a sherlock holmes style mind palace.
How it processes that.
It is more a ragbag of ideas that are the flotsam and jetsam of my mind and indeed of my crazy butterfly life presented in their organic and original reverse jumbled order.
The brain attic versus the mind palace.
Doyles 19th century stories to contemporary tv adaptations eingereicht von.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library where he can get it if he wants it sherlock holmes 1891.
From brain attic to mind palace.
The brain attic is much more broad konnikova says.
Why the brain attic.
How it takes in information.
I consider that a man s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.