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The boy who can't forget: Student can remember what he did, ate, and wore from every day in the last decade

>The 20-year-old is one of only a handful of people in the world with hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory. Pick any day from his teenage years and he can recall every detail of it – while most of us will remember no more than 11 events from each year of our life.

>Information about conversations he had, programmes he watched and even songs he heard are all part of Aurelien’s astonishing recall. While Aurelien describes his early childhood memories as ‘vague recollections’ like everyone else’s, things changed around the age of 11. He said: ‘It’s not something that I realised overnight, but when I was 14 I discovered that I was quite good at remembering some things that had happened years before.’

>Only 20 people in the world have been diagnosed with hyperthymesia, and it is believed Aurelien is the only Briton.

>The average person retrieves information such as dates from their long-term memory in the right frontal lobe of the brain.

>Aurelien does the same, but his long-term memory capacity is increased because he also uses the left frontal lobe, which normally deals with language, and occipital areas at the back of the brain, normally used for storing pictures. And all of this seems to happen subconsciously. He said: ‘There’s no method or technique to it. I’m not aware that my memories are being coded.

>However, the English literature student at Durham University insists his remarkable memory does not give him an advantage when it comes to exams or essays. He said: ‘I have quite a good memory generally but, because what I have is a good autobiographical memory, I don’t think it can really help with an academic piece of work at university.’

[Anonymous No.]

>However, the English literature student at Durham University insists his remarkable memory does not give him an advantage when it comes to exams or essays
Why not? He should be able to remember exactly what was said in lectures. Couldn't he write himself an essay carefully before the exam and memorize it perfectly?

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>>9771819
Time limits are rarely an issue, so all he'd be doing is taking care of the work at a different time, not saving himself any effort.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9771827
Time limits are always an issue for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9771816
>However, the English literature student at Durham University insists his remarkable memory does not give him an advantage when it comes to exams

Then this guy is full of shit and doesn't actually pay attention in class. If I could remember exactly what I studied 5 hours ago i'd have no trouble with my classes as its a bunch of shitty rout repeitition. Also

>English literature student

Man what a waste of talent. Math would be far far easier with a skill like that to the point it wouldn't be funny.