The Potential of Human Memory

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Many of us who have trouble remembering the names of people we just met would not believe that the potential of human memory is enormous. Two savants, David Tammet and Kim Peek, have become famous world-wide for their mental capacity and their memory abilities.

David Tammet was born in London in 1979. Many people have seen the documentary in which Tammet displayed his incredible memory capacity by learning the Icelandic language in one week after which he answered questions in Icelandic on local television. Languages are one of Tammet’s specialties, and he wrote in one of his books that he can speak ten of them. He is even making up his own language. Another display of extraordinary memory by Tammet was to recite correctly over 20,000 digits of pi, the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. Tammet has an acute version of synaesthesia where numbers have different shapes and colors in the person’s mind. He says that he sees a different shape, color, and texture for each of the first 10,000 integers. He says the number 333 is particularly beautiful, the number 289 is exceptionally ugly, and pi is beautiful as well. The fact that Tammet can explain what is going on in his mind makes him an exceptional savant. He has painted a watercolor of what pi looks like in his mind.

Kim Peek was an American who passed away in December, 2009, at the age of 58. He became famous as “the real Rain Man” because he was the inspiration for the character played by Dustin Hoffman in that film. Peek’s brain was actually missing some parts when he was born, including the corpus callosum, which is a portion of nerves that connect the brain’s two hemispheres. It is supposed that this meant his brain had to forge other neural connecting circuits and this led to his extraordinary memory. He could read a book in about an hour and repeat many passages verbatim. He could apparently recall information from 12,000 books that he had read. His technique was to read the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye at the same time. It was almost as if digital data was being scanned into a computer.

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