22 Facts About Exceptional memory

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Exceptional memory is the ability to have accurate and detailed recall in a variety of ways, including hyperthymesia, eidetic memory, synesthesia, and emotional memory.

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Exceptional memory is prevalent in those with savant syndrome and mnemonists.

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Hyperthymesia has both enhanced autobiographical and episodic Exceptional memory There is an important characteristic of hyperthymesia: People with the syndrome have an unusual form of eidetic Exceptional memory to remember as well as recall any specific personal events or trivial details, including a date, the weather, what people wore on that day, from their past, almost in an organized manner.

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Unlike other people with advanced Exceptional memory abilities, such as savant syndrome, individuals with hyperthymestic syndrome rely heavily on their personal "mental calendar", which is an automatic and obsessive process.

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Exceptional memory suggests that "AJ"'s superior autobiographical memory is largely the result of specific impairments rather than enhancements.

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Exceptional memory explains that although "most have called it a gift", she calls it a "burden".

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Eidetic Exceptional memory—total recall Exceptional memory—refers to the ability of an individual who can accurately recall a large number of images, sounds and objects in a seemingly unlimited volume.

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The term eidetic Exceptional memory can become more clinical when the Exceptional memory experts use the picture elicitation method to detect the ability.

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Public documents from the APA, Yale, and Harvard suggest otherwise and that more studies are being done in order to properly stimulate the differences; all current noted forms of Exceptional memory are open to the public but not meant to discriminate against the hypothesis of new types.

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Cases of eidetic Exceptional memory have been reported for generations, with a 1970 study on a woman being called the most convincing documentation yet.

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Exceptional memory's memory was extraordinary in that she could see an image once and retain it in memory for years to come.

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Reports suggest that her Exceptional memory was so vivid that she could obscure other parts of the present visual field with these past memories.

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Exceptional memory's first painting was of his childhood home in Pontito.

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Exceptional memory remembers events by memorizing A-B-C predicates—item-specific memory with a memorized association connecting them.

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One of the most well-known cases of savant Exceptional memory is Kim Peek, the man on which the movie Rain Man was based.

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Exceptional memory began to associate numbers with images after experiencing an epileptic seizure at the age of four.

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One study that sought to locate the neural differences between these and people with typical Exceptional memory abilities using fMRI, was unable to find any differences.

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Cases such as these suggest that superior Exceptional memory can be achieved with the proper mnemonic techniques.

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Exceptional memory was able to memorize all 328 pages of an Ikea catalogue in less than a week using mnemonics.

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An emotional or flashbulb Exceptional memory refers to the Exceptional memory of a personal significant event with distinctly vivid and long-lasting detailed information.

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Flashbulb Exceptional memory is said to be less accurate and less permanent than photographic memories, but its forgetting curve is less affected by time in comparing to other types of memories.

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One important aspect of flashbulb Exceptional memory is that it involves emotional arousal when the event is being remembered.

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