David Teachout

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It seems that the memories of savants are essentially the reverse of the memories of HSAMs. While HSAMs have incredibly enhanced memory of their own lives, but do not display any particular excellence in other kinds of memory, savants appear to lack autobiographical memory, but have an incredible memory for non-autobiographical things – facts and information. The memories of HSAMs are almost exclusively personal, while the memories of savants are almost exclusively impersonal.
The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
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