ravinmaniac52 Posted September 22, 2009 Posted September 22, 2009 What if you finished reading this article and remembered every detail of it for the rest of your life? That’s the problem people with super-autobiographical memory face—and yes, it’s often referred to as a problem, not a gift. Their minds are like a computer hard drive that retains everything: dates, middle names, license plate numbers, even what they eat for lunch on a daily basis There are only four confirmed super memory cases, a disorder experts say is somewhat related to OCD, though no doubt there are plenty others who haven’t been identified yet. So who are the four individuals who’ve all recently been the subject of a study at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine.? Let’s meet them and find out… http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/34971.html
dc. Posted September 22, 2009 Posted September 22, 2009 Some of those talents hardly seem super... lol. I feel like I know people with that ability. I guess they are just semi-savants?
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