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- Title
A case of unusual autobiographical remembering.
- Authors
Parker, Elizabeth S; Cahill, Larry; McGaugh, James L
- Abstract
This report describes AJ, a woman whose remembering dominates her life. Her memory is "nonstop, uncontrollable, and automatic." AJ spends an excessive amount of time recalling her personal past with considerable accuracy and reliability. If given a date, she can tell you what she was doing and what day of the week it fell on. She differs from other cases of superior memory who use practiced mnemonics to remember vast amounts of personally irrelevant information. We propose the name hyperthymestic syndrome, from the Greek word thymesis meaning remembering, and that AJ is the first reported case.
- Publication
Neurocase, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
1355-4794
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/13554790500473680