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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
by Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a
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.
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Mnemonist-Little-about-Memory/dp/...
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Mnemonist-Little-about-Memory/dp/...