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TapwaterJ discovered this in Cognitive Science
•2 reviews since May 11, 2008
cognitive-science, memory
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TapwaterJ discovered 8 weeks ago
UCI Studies Woman Who Can't Forget The Orange County Register, Gary Robbins- "The "human calendar."
That's what some people call the woman who contacted UC Irvine neurobiologist Jim McGaugh six years ago and said, "I have a problem. I remember too much."
She wasn't exaggerating. McGaugh and fellow UCI researchers Larry Cahill and Elizabeth Parker have been studying the extraordinary case of a person who has "nonstop, uncontrollable and automatic" memory of her personal history and countless public events.
If you randomly pick a date from the past 25 years and ask her about it, she'll usually provide elaborate, verifiable details about what happened to her that day and if there were any significant news events on topics that interested her. She usually also recalls what day of the week it was and what the weather was like.
The 40-year-old woman, who was given the code name AJ to protect her privacy, is so unusual that UCI coined a name for her condition in a recent issue of the journal Neurocase: hyperthymestic syndrome."
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- lexlu4 rated 8 weeks ago
- I should be so lucky as to have this condition. Thanks TapwaterJ.
