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Eidetic memory (/ aɪ ˈ d ɛ t ɪ k / eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at least for a brief period of time—after seeing it only once [1] and without using a mnemonic device.
However, the claim to eidetic memory was later disputed. [27] Nigel Richards, New Zealand scrabble player who, despite not speaking French, won the French World Scrabble Championships twice by studying the French dictionary for nine weeks, is said to possess an eidetic memory. [28] Joseph Rosen, a world famous Rabbi and talmudic scholar. He ...
Exceptional memory is the ability to have accurate and detailed recall in a variety of ways, including hyperthymesia, eidetic memory, synesthesia, and emotional memory. Exceptional memory is also prevalent in those with savant syndrome and mnemonists .
Eidetic memory (photographic memory) may co-occur in visual thinkers as much as in any type of thinking style as it is a memory function associated with having vision rather than a thinking style. [ citation needed ] Eidetic memory can still occur in those with visual agnosia , who, unlike visual thinkers, may be limited in the use of ...
Some research demonstrates that eidetic children have greater recall accuracy for visual details compared to non-eidetic children. Other researchers have failed to any advantage between the two groups. It is also hypothesized that eidetic imagery is not exactly related to memory and improve recall for visual details. If this is true ...
Image credits: TheBurn1nator No doubt about it, it’s a fact that humans are the most intelligent creatures on the planet. But, while we have a rich history of adapting to and comprehending the ...
Possessing an eidetic memory, Tesla was prone to fantastic claims and forever tapping Wall Street, including J.P. Morgan himself, for vast sums of money in part because of his lavish spending.
Laurence Kim Peek was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, [7] with macrocephaly, [5] damage to the cerebellum, and agenesis of the corpus callosum, [8] a condition in which the nerves that connect the two hemispheres of the brain are missing; in Peek's case, secondary connectors, such as the anterior commissure, were also missing. [5]