And that’s part of what, I think, makes this at least so interesting for me, is that you have this really remarkable ability in a person who is otherwise pretty darn normal,†he replied. They’re not people who have an extraordinary ability, but can’t tie their shoe. It could be very important.â€Â Stahl asked Cahill if this group is anything like savants. In the study of memory, says McGaugh, “It could be a new chapter that has never been explored before. After seven hours he and his colleague, Cahill, officially named Henner the sixth member of the Superior Autobiographical Memory Club. James McGaugh, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California Irvine, and a renowned expert on memory, performed standard memory tests on Henner. “I don’t do it, I just see it,†says Henner. “99% – 100% of the time, when I go to check the answer, I find they are correct,†says neuroscientist Dr. They called it the ‘Gathering of people with super memories.’ Journalist Leslie Stahl and other neurobiologist and experts, asked questions of the subjects about certain days that consisted of events, weather and particular things they were doing on a particular day. Henner, along with five other people with this condition, demonstrated their incredible memories on the Decemepisode of CBS’ 60 Minutes. Actress Marilu Henner, known for her role as Elaine Nardo in the late 1970s and early 1980s television sitcom Taxi, is one of them. It is known to exist in only a handful of cases in the world at the moment only six cases are known to exist. The published results of the first person found to have this super memory ability was in 2008. The medical condition is called by several different names – Hyperthymesia, Piking, Hyperthymestic Syndrome, or more commonly Superior Autobiographical Memory (SAM). Amazingly there is a rare group of people who are able to remember every minute of every day of their lives, down to the minute details that occurred on a certain day in their distant past. Most of us aren’t able to recall much of our past some of us have a hard time remembering what we ate for lunch yesterday. We are the compilation of all our memories. Five of the six people in the world known to have super autobiographical memory
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