What is happening in the minds of people of "hypersymacia (super memory disease syndrome)" that can remember details of past events with amazing memory power?

ByVictoria Nevland

"I can describe the events of my life up to now in detail as if I were watching a movie one scene with a date and day of the week specified"Hypercythemesia (super memory syndrome)There are few people in the world. Hypersymacia, which attracts the attention of many researchers, as it has the possibility that extraordinary memory can help clarify the ability hidden in the brain, but what is going on inside the head 2016 The news media BBC explains the research that has been done so far.

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People who remembered what happened in their life in detail "HyperSymmetia" attracted attention since the beginning of 2000. A woman named Jill Price says "I am remembering what happened since I was 12 years old everyday, but is it scientifically explainable?" And asked Professor Jim McGaugh, a neuroscientist at the University of California, was.

Professor McGaugh, who was intrigued by the story of Price, called her to the lab and talked about "the news that happened in the world on the designated day" and "the personal event that happened to her on the designated day" I got it. And, when checking against the actual news and the diary that Price was wearing, it turned out that the date and the event all matched. Also, a few years after the start of the survey, I asked, "Please tell me the date you visited the lab so far", it seems that all the dates Mr. Price answered coincided with the record .

As for Price who has "full memory ability", the media will start to draw attention soon. And as a result of being featured in magazines and movies, people with ability like Price came to contact the research team of the University of California.

Nima Veiseh is also one of Hyper Saisymacia. Originally good memory, Mr. Veiseh said that as soon as I met my first girlfriend at a friend's birthday party held on December 15, 2000, I was able to reproduce all memories like video tapes Thing. That seems to recall everything from the weather of the day, the clothes that I was wearing, the seats on the train on the journey.

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Interestingly, it is the "autobiographical" event that the person who is regarded as hypersymacia memorizes details, and it is only remembered as bullet degree for non-personal things. Also, some people say "I can forget what had happened 5 minutes ago, but I can remember carefully about January 22, 2008" or sometimes I have a mistaken memory about objective events , Even knowing "full memory ability" also makes me realize that it is not "to memorize everything perfectly".

So, how do they remember many things while having the same brain as ours? In this regard, Professor Craig Stark of the University of California, for the subjects of HyperSymmetia, asked questions about an event one week later, one month later, one year later, and how their memories changed I was observing whether it was doing. As a result, one month after the event occurred, it was found that memories unrelated to themselves were ambiguous, but what happened to themselves was not ambiguous, I understood that it was kept clear and clear. "They are keeping their memory in ways other than what we are doing," Professor Stark says.

Although research using brain scanning is also being conducted, it seems that brain scanning is not useful for elucidating hypercythemesia at this time. Although it has been found that the connection between the frontal lobe and the hippocampus is characterized, it is thought that these are the results brought by their memory ability, not the cause.

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On the other hand, profiling 20 subjects of hypercythemesia revealed that the score of "fantasy tendency" which is a property of watching daydreams and inflating imagination and "immersion" which is obsessed with the activity are very high doing. The qualities of "immersive" help to remember things to small parts, and it is a mechanism that can revive memories even after months because of imagination tendency. And by repeatedly replaying, memory is seen to become more robust.

However, it is not necessarily true that fancy tendency will awaken the full memory ability. According to Professor Lawrence Patihis of the University of Southern Mississippi, a person with full memory ability often has the experience of "looking back at past events" as a trigger, and when speaking of Veiseh, that meets the first girlfriend It was a party.

In recent research, people have turned out to be able to remember many memories later by looking back at the contents of the incident for several seconds in the head shortly after the occurrence. Some researchers are making applications to make things memorable like HyperSymmetia, and as research progresses from now on, the day we will be able to have full memory ability by training It may come.

However, it seems that it is not always good ability to memorize many things. "There are people who became teachers by making use of their abilities while talking about what the teachers said at school and what kind of textbooks they were." On the other hand, Mr. Price who did not like school studied Because I was not interested in it, my memory of study is not "personal thing", I can not remember clearly.

Also, it is also a disadvantage of perfect memory ability to memorize embarrassing memory that can be forgiven little by little if it is an ordinary person, clearly like yesterday's thing. Some people tell stories of terrible memories that they can not forget even if they forget how "an open wound is part of the body". On the other hand, Mr. Bill, who seems to have forgotten memories of the past like flashback, came to think of his ability as "a means to not repeat the same mistake".

Veiseh says he remembers everything since he met his first girlfriend, "There is a word" forgive and forgive ", but I could not forget, I had to learn how to forgive. Not only to others, but also to myself ", he says that full memory ability has made himself a tolerful and kind person.

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