Although I took regular psychology last year and watched the videos, Picking Cotton and the numerous segments of 60 Minutes, I still find it just as interesting. One 60 minute video which stuck out the most to me was the one about the five people with super autobiographical memories. It stood out to me, I think, because that is a sort of super power I wish I had. I have a few of the symptoms, such as OCD about much of my organization. Being able to remember every single detail about your life and the events surrounding it would be incredible. History is such an interesting subject for me, and being able to relive parts you've lived through would be phenomenal.
From this video I learned about how new of research is coming from this gift/curse. I can see why the leading psychologist behind the study would like to find out as much information on it as possible. There is so much possibilities and good which can come from it, if it can be harnessed Alzheimer's could be changed and diminished. So far the only leads psychologists have on the rare 'disease' is that adrenaline is osmething which helps regular people remember and relives parts of their lives. So the connection between these people and adrenaline is a very large possibility. Otherwise the enlargement of their temporal lobe could be exercised with regular people and enlarged in that way.
But I am slightly confused about some of the details surrounding the talent. It did not go into detail about what types of information the people could remember. It spoke of how their memories retain the highlights of each day as well as more, but it come back to them as images. I wonder if they remember the information the read, such as in a book or newspaper. Because in relation to school, if they were able to remember every detail of their lives including the information they read, each person should have no problem doing well in high school and college.
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