Photographic memory
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- Work cat.: Adler, D. Young Cam Jansen and the dinosaur game, c1996:p. 7 (Cam has an amazing memory. "My memory is like a camera ... I have a picture in my head of everything I've seen" ... because of her great memory, people started to call her "the Camera." Then "the Camera" became just Cam)
- International Parenting Association, Inc.'s Child Genuis Magazine website. Online, Oct. 2, 2000, Photographic Memory and the Image Brain by Clare Parker(Having photographic memory is being able to access information from memory instantaneously. The person with photographic memory can recall any information from any book he has read or page he has seen. Each page can be viewed on the screen of his mind as if it were a snapshot.)
- Online Britannica Oct. 2, 2000 memory abnormality(The case of a Russian mnemonist (memory artist), "S," was studied over a period of 30 years ... This man's exceptional mnemonic ability seemed largely to depend on an outstandingly vivid, detailed, and persistent visual memory, almost certainly eidetic ("photographic") in nature.)
- Noll, R. The encyc. of memory and memory disorders, 1994:p. 177 (photographic memory: the long-term persistence of mental images, technically known as eidetic memory)
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Eidetic memory ( eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory or total recall, is the alleged ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at least for a brief period of time—after seeing it only once and without using a mnemonic device. Although the terms eidetic memory and photographic memory are popularly used interchangeably, they are also distinguished, with eidetic memory referring to the ability to see an object for a few minutes after it is no longer present and photographic memory referring to the ability to recall pages of text or numbers, or similar, in great detail. When the concepts are distinguished, eidetic memory is reported to occur in a small number of children and is generally not found in adults, while true photographic memory has never been demonstrated to exist. The term eidetic comes from the Greek word εἶδος (pronounced [êːdos], eidos) "visible form".
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