I've been meaning to recommend this remarkable recent segment on the the USA TV programme "60 Minutes". It concerns a small group of adults who have what is being called, with understatement, "superior autobiographical memory". The segment is called "The Gift of Endless Memory" and it's at http://tinyurl.com/2594p8z (videos and trascript).
The researcher involved is the eminent James McGaugh, professor of neurobiology at the University of California Irvine. Their apparently effortless ability to remember life events (calendar dates and what happened on them) is astounding, rivaling that of autistic calculators (which these people are not). And the memories have been documented. As a bonus, the 60 Minutes interviewer, Lesley Stahl, was able to add to McGaugh's small group of such people her friend, the actress Marilu Henner, fondly remembered by many for her work in the sitcom "Taxi" which ran between 1978 and 1983. She's pretty good, too (in memory, as in sit-com). Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=7585 or send a blank email to leave-7585-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
