James McGaugh is well-known in the learning and memory field but in recent years he has become famous for the study of people with highly structured and organized autobiographical memories which have, in essence, become knowledge structures comparable to semantic memory structures. The person he and his colleagues first studied was a person that they named "AJ" but who later revealed herself to be Jill Price who "wrote" the biography "The Woman Who Can't Forget" (actually, she can forget and cannot remember every day in her life, her advertising notwithstanding; she completely failed Bartlett's "War of the Ghosts" test because "she thought it was the stupidest story that she had ever heard"). ABC's 20/20 program interviewed Ms. Price and is available on the ABC website. A later CBS "60 Minutes" piece interviewed six newly discovered people who also had HSAM -- which includes the actress Marilu Henner. -- and is also available on the CBS news website.
McGaugh & Co have a new paper on other people with "highly superior autobiographical memory" which is described in an article on the NPR website; see: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/20/158779474/why-can-some-people-recall-every-day-of-their-lives-brain-scans-offer-clues The new research article can be accessed here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074742712000706 -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- 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=19894 or send a blank email to leave-19894-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
