23 May, 2012

BPS Research Digest: Total recall: The man who can remember every day of his life in detail

BPS Research Digest: Total recall: The man who can remember every day of his life in detail: For most of us, it's tricky enough to remember what we were doing this time last week, let alone on some random day years ago. But for a blind 20-year-old man referred to by researchers as HK, every day of his life since the age of about eleven is recorded in his memory in detail. HK has a rare condition known as hyperthymesia and his is only the second case ever documented in the scientific literature (the first, a woman known as AJ, was reported in 2006; pdf).