September 2018, Year X, n. 9
Rebecca Sharrock
The young lady made of memories
Telos: What does Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) mean?
Rebecca Sharrock: Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) is a very rare condition discovered in the year 2006 by researchers from the University California, Irvine. It enables a person to both remember and easily retrieve all or most of their past in precise detail. HSAM was formally known as hyperthymesia; but the McGaugh/Stark lab at UCI (the research team who first identified HSAM) felt that the name sounded more like a disease, and so it was changed ...more
Editorial
There are about sixty people in the whole world who are able to project themselves at will into the past and relive with an unparalleled wealth of detail moments, situations, experiences and in some cases even the first days of their life.
These people have a neurological condition called hyperthymesia, characterised by having an extraordinary autobiographical memory (HSAM, Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory).
Discovered recently in 2006, HSAM is still truly a mystery to scientists ...more
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