Would you give up your sense of smell to keep your hair? What about your phone? A 2022 US study compared smell to other senses (sight and hearing) and personally prized commodities (including money, a ...
A person’s memory is a sea of images and other sensory impressions, facts and meanings, echoes of past feelings, and ingrained codes for how to behave—a diverse well of information.
Various theories have been proposed, though no one theory is likely to explain all cases of savants’ memory abilities. Among the proposals are that dysfunction in one area of the brain may lead ...