Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists
That level of recall suggests another hypothesis. Some people are able to recall past events by categorizing them. Certain events, or facts, are associated with others, and filed away together so that they may be easier to access. That's a trick that is often used by entertainers who use feats of memory to wow their audience.AJ does have "some sort of compulsive tendencies. She wants order in her life," McGaugh says. "As a child, she would get upset if her mother changed anything in her room because she had a place for everything and wanted everything in its place.
"So she does categorize events by the date, but that doesn't explain why she remembers it."
Fascinating... She remembers when tax inititatives were passed in her childhood, for crying out loud!