I was skeptical of this claim because it is so hard to test memory of every day of a person's life.
and if the truth is that these folks are simply better at remembering, not able to remember every moment of each day, or even every day then the title of the NPR article is another good example of why we need to educate our students between the difference between popular media and peer reviewed accounts... thanks Michael Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA -----Original Message----- From: Michael Palij <[email protected]> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Palij <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Aug 20, 2012 8:27 am Subject: [tips] How To Study People With Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) 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=12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b878&n=T&l=tips&o=19894 or send a blank email to leave-19894-12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- 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=19896 or send a blank email to leave-19896-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
