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We hope you enjoyed our Super Week special feature that ran all last week to complement the Super-themed special issue of The Psychologist magazine. Each day we met a person with an extreme ability or a researcher investigating such an ability. Here's the complete list:
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Listen To Your Heart Our new Valentine's-themed podcast, plus loads more Valentine links and resources from The Psychologist magazine and our own archive. The Surprising...
- Day 7 Of Digest Super Week: Meet The Woman Who Remembers Most Of Her Life In Extraordinary Detail
For most of us, the remembrance of days and weeks gone by is rapidly obscured by the clouds of forgetting. Not so for people with what's known as hyperthymesia or Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. These unusual individuals can recall most of...
- Day 5 Of Digest Super Week: Meet A Superager
Last year, a group of researchers at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University reported that they'd identified a small group of elderly people whose brains appeared relatively immune to the physical effects...
- Day 3 Of Digest Super Week: Meet The Super-humane Professor
I am super humane Gandhi once said, "All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family." Studies of those who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust found they shared Gandhi’s deep sense of the "oneness with all humanity." That oneness...
- Day 2 Of Digest Super Week: Meet A Super-recogniser
For many years psychologists have studied people whose brain damage has impaired their ability to recognise faces. More recently it became clear that there is another group of individuals who are born with this deficit, or develop it early in childhood....
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Super Week round-up
Marc Umile, calendar calculator.
Moira Jones, super-recogniser.
Sam McFarland, super-humane.
Charles Spence, super-tasters.
Custis Wright, SuperAger.
Jason Watson, SuperTaskers.
Rebecca Sharrock, superior autobiographical memory.
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Listen To Your Heart Our new Valentine's-themed podcast, plus loads more Valentine links and resources from The Psychologist magazine and our own archive. The Surprising...
- Day 7 Of Digest Super Week: Meet The Woman Who Remembers Most Of Her Life In Extraordinary Detail
For most of us, the remembrance of days and weeks gone by is rapidly obscured by the clouds of forgetting. Not so for people with what's known as hyperthymesia or Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. These unusual individuals can recall most of...
- Day 5 Of Digest Super Week: Meet A Superager
Last year, a group of researchers at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University reported that they'd identified a small group of elderly people whose brains appeared relatively immune to the physical effects...
- Day 3 Of Digest Super Week: Meet The Super-humane Professor
I am super humane Gandhi once said, "All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family." Studies of those who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust found they shared Gandhi’s deep sense of the "oneness with all humanity." That oneness...
- Day 2 Of Digest Super Week: Meet A Super-recogniser
For many years psychologists have studied people whose brain damage has impaired their ability to recognise faces. More recently it became clear that there is another group of individuals who are born with this deficit, or develop it early in childhood....