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01-28-2009, 06:45 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-27-mri-super-memory_N.htm?se=yahoorefe r
A Southern California man employed in the entertainment business is the fourth person verified by scientists to have an ultra-rare memory gift: He recalls in detail most days of his life, as well as the day and date of key public events, says Larry Cahill, who co-leads a project on people with super-memory.
The name of the latest "bona fide" won't be released by scientists because he's a research subject, but he is free to identify himself.
Meanwhile, MRI scans on Jill Price, 43, the Los Angeles religious school administrator who in 2006 was the first person confirmed to have such an ability, reveal two abnormally large areas in her brain. That discovery could lead to breakthroughs on how memories are formed and kept, says Cahill, a neuroscientist at the University of California-Irvine. Price went public last year with the publication of her book, The Woman Who Can't Forget.
This article has a little more background:
Decades of details flood woman with unmatched memory
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-05-07-cant-forget-price_N.htm?loc=interstit ialskip
A Southern California man employed in the entertainment business is the fourth person verified by scientists to have an ultra-rare memory gift: He recalls in detail most days of his life, as well as the day and date of key public events, says Larry Cahill, who co-leads a project on people with super-memory.
The name of the latest "bona fide" won't be released by scientists because he's a research subject, but he is free to identify himself.
Meanwhile, MRI scans on Jill Price, 43, the Los Angeles religious school administrator who in 2006 was the first person confirmed to have such an ability, reveal two abnormally large areas in her brain. That discovery could lead to breakthroughs on how memories are formed and kept, says Cahill, a neuroscientist at the University of California-Irvine. Price went public last year with the publication of her book, The Woman Who Can't Forget.
This article has a little more background:
Decades of details flood woman with unmatched memory
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-05-07-cant-forget-price_N.htm?loc=interstit ialskip