Does Photographic Memory Exist? - Scientific American - 0 views
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The intuitive notion of a “photographic” memory is that it is just like a photograph: you can retrieve it from your memory at will and examine it in detail, zooming in on different parts. But a true photographic memory in this sense has never been proved to exist.
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Most of us do have a kind of photographic memory, in that most people's memory for visual material is much better and more detailed than our recall of most other kinds of material.
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Sorry to disappoint further, but even an amazing memory in one domain, such as vision, is not a guarantee of great memory across the board.
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A winner of the memory Olympics, for instance, still had to keep sticky notes on the refrigerator to remember what she had to do during the day.