![]() Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, “ Total recall: the people who never forget” at The Guardian (February 8, 2017) With so many memories always at the ready, Price says, it can be maddening: virtually anything she sees or hears can be a potential trigger. It is, she says, like living with a split screen: on the left side is the present, on the right is a constantly rolling reel of memories, each one sparked by the appearance of present-day stimuli. Price was the first person ever to be diagnosed with what is now known as highly superior autobiographical memory, or HSAM, a condition she shares with around 60 other known people… From a Guardian story about Price in 2017: The 60 Minutes Australia program also features Jill Price, born 1965 in New York City, who describes a much less dynamic and encouraging life (4:20 min). But some total recallers have not found living with their skill so easy. ![]() Henner made a good thing out of her skills, which seem to go well beyond total recall. Gerri Miller, “ Total Recall: Marilu Henner Can’t Forget (Even If She Wanted To)” at BrainWorld (Summer 2011 Brainworld Magazine, online June 15, 2019) We don’t know whether the subjects were born with this or it’s an ability that was acquired later on,” he says, noting that they are in collaboration with other scientists doing genetic analyses on saliva samples. “Is the region larger because they were born with it and it plays some role in their memory, or is it because they’ve exercised their memory causing this region of the brain to grow larger? We don’t have an answer to that question. MRI tests indicate that the temporal lobes and caudate nuclei in these subjects’ brains “are significantly larger than those of people who do not have this ability,” says McGaugh, but the cause remains unknown. “It’s like a DVD menu or a hard drive - everything is there.” Gerri Miller, “ Total Recall: Marilu Henner Can’t Forget (Even If She Wanted To)” at BrainWorld (Summer 2011 Brainworld Magazine, online June 15, 2019) It’s just there,” says Henner, who became aware of her ability at age 6. “It’s just something I’ve been able to do my whole life. ![]() If you tell her your birth date, she’ll tell you the day of the week you were born. Henner knows the month, day, and year of every event that has happened in her lifetime, from major news events to minor personal incidents, like the fact that she broke her wrist in a revolving door on Sunday, May 6, 1973.
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