Actress Marilu Henner (Taxi) can recall specific details from almost every day in her life. She has hyperthymesia, a rare condition that only she and 10 other people in the world are proven by tests to possess. In this 60 Minutes (Australian version) segment, Henner talks with her about "superior autobiographical memory." She considers it a gift but others interviewed consider it a burden.
Imagine being able to remember every minute detail of your life. You can recall what the weather was like, what you were reading or what you wore to the shops at any minute, any hour or any day stretching back decades. It sounds like some kind of parlour trick, but it's actually a real and very rare medical phenomenon.
Previously: This woman remembers every detail from her life since she was 12 days old
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I decided to enter my first USA Memory Championship only a few months after I’d first learned it existed. This was two years before it entered the wider public consciousness after its portrayal in Joshua Foer’s bestselling book Moonwalking with Einstein. Foer had written about the 2005 Championship for Slate Magazine, and in the process […]
Quirkologist Richard Wiseman has a new book out called How to Remember Everything. In this video, Richard shares 10 mnemonics for remembering various bits of useful information.
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