Gail Robinson is Director of the Clinical Neuropsychology Doctoral Programme at the University of Queensland. She is a clinical neuropsychologist and her research is focused on both theoretical questions regarding brain-behaviour relationships, and clinical questions regarding cognitive assessment and management of various pathologies. She has done significant research into dementia, but has also studied people who have an extraordinary ability to remember things. She hopes to be able to deduce the mechanisms that make their memories so much more robust than most, and in so doing, identify paths by which fading memories can be preserved or made more robust.