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Understanding how superior memory works may help to improve memory in the general population and in the memory-impaired, but the specific neural mechanisms behind exceptional memory performance have ...

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...

A recent case study provides evidence that an extraordinarily rare memory condition, known as highly superior autobiographical memory, can emerge and be objectively measured in early adolescence. The ...

The findings may help explain why this group has such exceptional memory. By Dana G. Smith Many people’s brains deteriorate as they age, becoming riddled with malfunctioning proteins that result in ...

If you’ve ever been the person who remembers everyone’s birthday, obscure facts or entire movie scripts after a single watch, you could be tapping into a cognitive superpower – and it’s more valuable ...