Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion The work of McGaugh, studying super memory

Has anyone seen the work of James McGaugh, UC Irvine, studying memory?

Novel research on a relatively new phenomena of super memory was a featured segment on the TV show "60 Minutes".

Most recently
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/memory-wizards/ (January 12, 2014)

Also
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/understanding-the-gift-of-endless-memory/ (June 19, 2011)

and
http://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/science/

In the most recent 60 Minutes TV show it was fun to see the joy among the memory wizards when they met each other and could have conversations on what occurred on any particular date! They were finally finding others who were like themselves, who could understand them and relate to the way in which they experienced life. One of the participants was a 10-year-old boy.

Interesting, but I wonder if there is more of a variation of how much people can recall than is implied in this study. For example my younger brother remembers a whole lot more of his childhood than the rest of the family, whereas my husband remembers very very little.

Memory, in these cases, was tied to emotion and that seems to be the focus of the author's work.

Other threads about memory (photographic memory, eidetic memory):

http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....graphic_and_or_Audiovisua.html#Post92751 (Jan 2011)
and
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....idetic_memory_experience.html#Post157263 (May 2013)