Researchers examined a girl with exceptional memory recall. Her case could transform understanding of how we relive the past and imagine the future. Autobiographical memory is the ability to recall ...

The teenager has a rare condition called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM), also known as hyperthymesia.

At only eight years old, a French girl named TL found she could enter her past with the clarity of a movie reel and even ...

A French teen with hyperthymesia can recall life events in extraordinary detail, offering scientists new clues about the ...

Autobiographical memory encapsulates the personal recollections that shape an individual’s identity, providing a continuous narrative of one’s life. With advancing age, these memories often undergo ...

Just a hundred years ago, most people had – at most – a few photos of themselves and their family. What a difference to today, when we can easily capture every important and unimportant moment – from ...

A teenage girl in France has memories so vivid that its as if she is able to travel back through time in her mind and also ...

Emotional highs and lows and questions of who we are are a natural part of adolescence. During this transformative period, young people go through profound psychological changes that affect how they ...

A new case study describes one such extraordinary individual: a female teenager, named TL for anonymity, who can recall an astonishing number of personal events from her life. Fewer than 100 people ...

There’s good brain science behind that magic: odors travel a “direct route” to parts of the brain tied to emotion and memory ...