May 5, 2021
For people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or
HSAM, every day is memorable. Ask them what they were doing on this
date 10 years ago, and they’ll be able to tell you. Markie
Pasternak, one of the youngest people identified with HSAM, and
Michael Yassa, PhD, director of the Center for the
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California
Irvine, talk about what it’s like to have this ability, what we
know about how the brains of people with HSAM store and retrieve
this vast amount of autobiographical information, and what studying
this unique ability can teach us more generally about how memory
works.
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Links
Michael Yassa, PhD - faculty.sites.uci.edu/myassa
Markie Pasternak - http://livingwithtotalrecall.home.blog