When they put these guys in an fMRI machine, scanned their brains while they were memorizing numbers and people's faces and pictures of snowflakes, they found that the memory champions were lighting up different parts of the brain than everyone else.
Cuando los pusieron en una máquina de resonancia magnética, escanearon sus cerebros mientras memorizaban números, caras y formas de copos de nieve. Encontraron que en los campeones de memoria se iluminaban partes del cerebro, diferentes a los demás.