Jill Price Death

Study of Jill Price -- The Woman Who Can’t Forget Jill Price is the first patient who has been diagonsed with hyperthymesia, a mental disorder in which the patient has a extream autobiographical memory. Starting at the age of 14, Jill is able to recall a memory in great details from years ago. "Starting on February 5th, 1980, I remember everything. That was a Tuesday." Jill said. While studys on her brain had been processed through, there were no abnormal sympotems have been found of her hippocampus. However, her brain resembles people who have Obesessive composive disorder (OCD). What’s more, studys have shown that she got a average score of remembering new words form a list. To explain the OCD-like sympton, psychologist Gray Marcus had

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Total Recall: the woman who can’t forget, Gray Marcus has indicated that “The type of memory system we have—in technical terms, context-dependent rather than location-addressable—has been around for several hundred million years.”. The discovery of Jill Price’s memory ability can give an insight to the field of learning and memory and how changing our memory system can affect the efficience of infirmation storage. The future study may provide methods of how normal people can increase their memory ability using psychological practices. What interests me about this case study is that the ability of extrem memory actually is another form of OCD. Normally when we talk about OCD, we think of someone who is composive and sometimes dangous. However, in the case of Jill Price, her obsession about herself turns into a extreme memory ability. That just proves the fact that in psychology, there is no standard samples of certain behavior. Every individual is different in terms of their unique personality and experiences. The complexity of the brain sheds a big range of possibility of human potential. Knowing what we can do with that brain, is what really interets