The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner cover
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner
by Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a
Description: The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner presents a detailed case study of a man with exceptional memory, examining the psychological processes behind his abilities
ISBN: 0674576225
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jbrechtel · 2010-12-26 · Original thread
I'm pretty sure Sherashevsky (studied in the early 1900s) falls into the 'normal' people category. He certainly had problems but would be a very high functioning idiot savant at absolute worst.

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