Unique Memory Lets Woman Replay Life Like a Movie

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20 Apr 2006

By
Michelle Trudeau

Part Two of Two Parts

Neurobiologist James McGaugh, one of the world's experts on human memory, says that a woman he calls AJ has a one-of-a-kind memory. In an interview with NPR, she talks about what life is like for someone who can remember things she's done and news events from almost every day of her life for the past 25 years.

Click the link below to listen to the full story.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5352811

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