ABC News: Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists

ABC News: Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists

On Memory - I was just talking about how I saw a picture of myself at an event in high school and said I don't have any memory of the event at all - only remember the picture. It is curious how our memory does work? Exceprt from article follows:

"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.

Give her any date, she said, and she could recall the day of the week, usually what the weather was like on that day, personal details of her life at that time, and major news events that occurred on that date.

Like any good scientist, McGaugh was initially skeptical. But not anymore.

"This is real," he says.

See link for rest of article. Very interesting.