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SenseCam movies have remarkable similarities with episodic memory; for example, they are fragmentary, time compressed, temporally ordered, have a \u2018field perspective\u2019, formed outside awareness, and are visual. In preliminary, galtonesesque investigations with co-workers at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, we found that SenseCam movies stimulate episodic memory. The effects are powerful, and an organic amnesic patient was able to recall events she could not previously recall; normal healthy participants recalled the trivia of routines as well as vividly recalling the minutiae of important events. One possibility we consider is that SenseCam pictures stimulate neural networks, possibly hippocampal, that cannot otherwise be easily accessed. 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