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Asked by anon-188124 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 5 Nov 2018.
Question: Do you believe in supermemory?
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Warren Mansell answered on 5 Nov 2018:
There are certainly some people with much better memories than others, and some techniques for improving memory that can vastly increase your ability.
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Alex Reid answered on 5 Nov 2018:
I’t’s not really my area (‘supermemory’ is not a term I am familiar with) but I have heard of Hyperthymesia, which refers to people with ridiculously good memories which sounds like the same thing. Hyperthymesia is hard to study as so few people receive this classification, but they do appear to exist, so in that sense yes I believe in super-memory.
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Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:
To add to what Warren and Alex said, there is a hypothesis that there are people that “never forget a face”, “superrecognisers” – although the evidence in this area, I believe, is mixed – have a look for more info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser
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Nadine Mirza answered on 12 Nov 2018:
I think I do, if you mean supermemory as the kind of stuff “memory athletes” can do (people who can memorise hundreds of words or tons of information in a few minutes and easily recall it). I also read here that you don’t just have to be born with amazing memory- that you can gain it: https://www.nature.com/articles/543291a
And also here which I found really interesting: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-26/edition-10/interview-would-you-want-super-memory
But if you meant supermemory in another sense I also read a while back about this woman. Apparently she has never forgotten anything EVER since she was 14 down to every last detail. Her story is here and she talks about how she feels flooded with information: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-31/april-2018/shes-afflicted-these-memories-they-flood-her
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