Apparently, somebody has recalled previously forgotton memories and become able to speak fluent french after a coma from what I saw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9fKG5-zEE. I'm wondering if people can also train themselves to be good at recalling previously forgotten memories by training themselves to recall information they've forgotten that there's a record of. For example, if a cell phone gets invented where you can type in somebody's name and then type what their phone number was and when you want to phone them, you have to go to their name and then start typing digits from beginning to end from memory and as soon as you type a digit incorrectly, you get notified and then you have to type that digit followed by the next digit and will be notified when you do so correctly, I wonder if the people using it would train themselves to recall memories of what phone numbers were. I wonder if people would become even smarter if some of the memories they trained themselves to recall were memories from before they started the training because that way, their brain has to form complex connections in order to recall memories that were lost in the brain than to just not forget stuff they learn from then on. That's probably because lost memories get scattered to unrecognizability in the brain but that doesn't mean there isn't a complex method of extracting the memory from the disorder. Maybe unlike the man in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9fKG5-zEE who thought he was somebody else, with sufficient training, they'll learn how to properly extract their past experience correctly from the disorder and have undistorted memories. Maybe getting an actual defect in the connection supressing ability making you do something like only have supress unimportant connections from an accident like in that video could make it so easy to recall previously forgotten memories cause of not supressing the connections for extracting them that much and be superior to any possible training to recall previously forgotten memories because you'll be hyperaware thinking about a large amount of your past all at once because it's just as easy as thinking about a single past experience because the memories of the individual experiences were already lost in the brain, and the you can recall memories that were even more badly lost with the defect in the connection supressing ability than you would with training alone. I wonder if in general, it's easier for autistic people to train themselves to recall previously forgotten memories.
Can people improve their memory by training themselves to recall previously forgotten memories?
cognitive neuroscience