Autobiographical Memory
A friend of my friend Mojie will be on 60 Minutes tomorrow:
“It was slightly rainy and cloudy on January 14, 15th. It was very hot the weekend of the 27th, 28th . No rain,” recalls Louise Owen, one of the six known people with superior autobiographical memory, when asked by a scientist which days it rained in January - in the year 1990!
“They can do with their memories what you and I can do about yesterday…and they can do it every day,” says the scientist, Dr. James McGaugh, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine.
