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In Memento, the main character had short term memory, but it would not form new memories. His window of awareness seemed to be on the order of 10 or 15 minutes
by tasty_freeze 10y ago
In Memento, the main character had short term memory, but it would not form new memories. His window of awareness seemed to be on the order of 10 or 15 minutes. The author of the article describes not being able to even read a paragraph because the start was forgotten by the time she reached the end.