Woman with perfect memory baffles scientists

Posted on Wednesday, 22 March, 2006 | 8 comments

James McGaugh is one of the world's leading experts on how the human memory system works. But these days, he admits he's stumped.McGaugh's journey through an intellectual purgatory began six years ago when a woman now known only as AJ wrote him a letter detailing her astonishing ability to remember with remarkable clarity even trivial events that happened decades ago.

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#4 Posted by Scorpius on 22 March, 2006, 19:16
That is amazing. I hope to see what exactly is "wired differently" in her brain. I must try this out. Then again, I date my written work everyday and I still don't remember. I wonder if they'd done any specific aptitude tests on her. There could be many reasons. Some proba...

#5 Posted by WoDoByMe on 23 May, 2006, 16:19
There was a man that lived in Europe that also had the same type of memory, however to him every memory had a smell. Including the words on the pages that he read.

#6 Posted by __Kratos__ on 23 May, 2006, 17:01
I propose her and Ken Jennings go head to head on Jeopardy! Why so long for testing? It will be interesting to see though if her brain is different then normal or even more shocking her brain is showing normal.

#7 Posted by frogfish on 23 May, 2006, 20:45
People like her are called savants...sadly, most are autistic. The key is HOW they see the world. Some see it in numbers, other in colors, and Pea (the true Rainman) sees it in Morse Code.

#8 Posted by __Kratos__ on 23 May, 2006, 22:45
Actually... There are 3 pages to the story from the link Saruman provided.

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