The Woman Who Can't Forget - Jill Price

The Woman Who Can't Forget

The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2009
The Free Press (Verlag)
978-1-4165-6177-4 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Now in paperback, The Woman Who Can't Forgetdescribes Jill Price's remarkable life and takes us on a mind-opening voyage into what life would be like if we didn't forget.
Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world event or cultural happening that took place, as long as she heard about it that day. Her memories are like scenes from home movies, constantly playing in her head, backward and forward, through the years; not only does she make no effort to call her memories to mind, she cannot stop them.

Jill Price is the subject of the most exhaustive scientific inquiry into superior memory in history. She has kept her identity anonymous until now, known by the scientific community as patient "AJ," the first patient to ever be diagnosed with what the scientists who have studied her have called hyperthymestic syndrome. She lives in Los Angeles and is currently working as an administrator at an elementary school. Bart Davis has written four nonfiction books, The Woman Who Can’t Forget, Closure, Shooting Stars, and Holy War on the Home Front. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Stony Brook University and holds a BA in English and an MA in social work.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.7.2009
Co-Autor Bart Davis
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 289 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
ISBN-10 1-4165-6177-3 / 1416561773
ISBN-13 978-1-4165-6177-4 / 9781416561774
Zustand Neuware
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