PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Suzanne Corkin, Solomon Shereshevsky, Henry Molaison
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Psyc 1010: module 26 forgetting, memory construction, improving memory. Russian memory whiz solomon shereshevskii (or s, as he was known), was haunted by his junk heap of memories. After reading a story, he could recite it but would struggle to summarize its gist. Later in this module we will ask you to recall this sentence: the fish attacked the swimmer. A more recent case of a life overtaken by memory is a. J. , whose experience has been studied and verified by a university of california at irvine research team, along with several dozen other highly superior autobiographical memory cases (mcgaugh & A. j. , who has identified herself as jill price, compares her memory to a running movie that never stops. I"ll be talking to someone and seeing something else . It is non-stop, uncontrollable, and totally exhausting. a good memory is helpful, but so is the ability to forget.
