Beautiful Minds - A Voyage into the Brain

Memory Masters: How Savants Store Information (1x1)

Air date: Feb 20, 2006

Reudiger Gamm performs complex arithmetic instantly and without help - his brain stores numbers like a calculator. Orlando Sorrel remembers exactly what he was doing on any date, at any hour, and can accurately predict the day of the week thousands of years in the future. Kim Peek - the original Rain Man - has read 12,000 books and hasn’t forgotten a single word.