http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11808527 wrote:
The "human calendar." That's what some people call the woman who contacted UC Irvine neurobiologist Jim McGaugh six years ago and said, "I have a problem. I remember too much."
She wasn't exaggerating.
She wasn't exaggerating.
WAhtever she's smoking, I want some.
Think of the kind of world we'd have if no one ever forgot anything, ever.
They havn't studied the actual anatomy of her brain yet, but I would be curious to see how it compares to that of a normal person.
Autistic savantes can usually do this, however it seems that some other aspect of the psyche are sacrificed... If they can find the "switch" that causes this if there is one, I wonder waht they would do with it?
although if there really was anything to it... I think the bottom would drop out of the poor "sticky-note" industry.