People with extraordinary autobiographical memories also tend to have obsessive tendencies, researchers are learning. Brain scans reveal structural differences in the brains of these people, including a larger-than-normal caudate, a brain area linked to OCD.
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Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics | Underwire | Wired.com
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Why Can Some People Recall Every Day Of Their Lives? Brain Scans Offer Clues : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
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Back To The Future With ‘Total Recall’ Remake : NPR
Kenneth Turan reviews the film Total Recall, based on a story by Philip K. Dick and a remake of another film from the 1990, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/03/157958963/back-to-the-future-with-total-recall-remake
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On Point: E-Memory & Human Nature
Human memory is a famously tricky thing. We remember some things. We forget a lot more. And we shape and sculpt the memories we do have with a vengeance. But more and more, the actual events of our lives are being recorded electronically. In Facebook albums and Twitter posts and smartphone files, yes, but also in thousands of digital transactions we don’t even think about. Now, two top Microsoft computer scientists are talking about an era of e-memory — "total recall" — as a revolution in what it means to be human. This hour, On Point: E-memory, total recall, and human nature.