Photographic Memory By Crystal & Stephen

Photographic memory Photographic Memory AKA Eidetic Memories involves eidetic images – an exact replica of a visual image that persists over time without distortion. Eidetic images can apparently last for prolonged periods of time – sometimes days or even weeks – and seem to contain all the information in the original experience.

Eidetic images occur most often childhood (in about 5% of children tested), but are less frequent in adolescence, and are very rarely reported in adulthood.

Experiments In one of the original experiments on eidetic memory, English schoolchildren were shown a complicated street scene that was displayed in the form of a storybook picture for 35 seconds and then withdrawn from view. Some of the children were able to describe this scene as if describing the information with the actual picture in front of them.

A few of these children (who it would seem had eidetic memories) could spell out the name of a street that had appeared in the picture even though this street name was a 13-letter German word and the children knew no German (Allport, 1924)

Look at the picture for ten seconds

Answer the questions What was the name of the man in the right hand corner? What colour hair does Ashley have? Is the colour of Andy's hair brown or black? How many names are shown in this picture? How many people are up in the picture?

If you answered most of those correctly then you may have a photographic memory.

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