Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with ...

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with ...

The idea of a "photographic memory" has been intriguing to us non-robots since photography was invented, probably. But does it really exist? And if your memory is, shall we say, not so photographic, ...

Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed was just 18 months-old when her mother, renowned avant-garde journalist Shelia Turner Seed, unexpectedly passed away. Driven by a desire to understand who her mother ...

The vast potential of the human brain becomes especially clear in the domain of memory. The most captivating instances of superior memory ability may be few and far between—the savant who memorizes a ...

I'm sure this is normal in some people but I have this weird kind of memory where I can remember the dates that certain things happened on. Hell, I'll remember the day I got my dog Sparky when I was 8 ...

Stephen Wiltshire is a celebrated artist, known for his breathtakingly detailed depictions of iconic cities and skylines. What makes his amazingly elaborate and accurate hand-drawn cityscapes all the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) Hollywood loves a ...