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Meet the woman who cannot forget (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/psychology

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Imagine being able to remember every single day of your life, all the way back to when you were a newborn.

Australian woman Rebecca Sharrock is one of only 60 people in the world with a highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), also known as hyperthymesia.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Interesting. But still, memories from your whole life would probably take up 100x-1000x what you currently remember, does your brain really have that much free capacity? Although I imagine the mechanism of only paying attention to the memories that are relevant could work even then