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Pitlordfire
I want to develop and train my photographic memory.
Can anyone please give me tips.
Can anyone please give me tips.
Charles Stromeyer studied his future wife Elizabeth who could recall poetry written in a foreign language that she did not understand years after she had first seen the poem. She also could recall random dot patterns with such fidelity as to combine two patterns into a stereoscopic image.[17] She remains the only person to have passed such a test.
Math Is Hard said:I can only recall one case study of "photographic memory" that wasn't debunked in the lab.
If it exists, it's very rare.
Danger said:I wish that my memory was photographic, but it's just underdeveloped.
Ben Niehoff said:But I do sometimes forget things, especially if I wasn't paying attention (which is often, if the information is something I don't care about).
wildman said:I worked with a gal who was an expert with MIBs which is a management data base used in telecommunications with syntax like this:
FooProtocol DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
FooQuestion ::= SEQUENCE {
trackingNumber INTEGER,
question VisibleString
}
FooAnswer ::= SEQUENCE {
questionNumber INTEGER,
answer BOOLEAN
}
END
and that is a simple example. She could produce the stuff flawlessly verbatim. I'm talking about thousands of lines of the strangest illogical mishmash. She claimed that she could remember verbatim everything she had ever read.
Math Is Hard said:That's interesting. What I am wondering is if this "illogical mishmash" was actually meaningful to her in a way that she could semantically process it in chunks. For instance, storing the sequence DSTFBICNNCIA would be difficult, unless one broke it into meaningful acronym chunks: DST FBI CNN CIA. If one is very practiced, it's possible for obscure syntax can be chunked up to allow more abstract levels of conscious processing - the details are just processed automatically. So while
"FooQuestion ::= SEQUENCE {
trackingNumber INTEGER,
question VisibleString
}
"
might look like a strange and complicated to us, for an expert it may just exist in memory as a single, meaningful unit. Chess masters do something like this in that they chunk meaningful board arrangements of chess pieces in memory.
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/eLessonsHTML/ProbSolv/PSExpert.html
Photographic memory, also known as eidetic memory, is the ability to recall images, information, and events in great detail and with high accuracy after only a brief exposure to them. It is a highly debated and rare phenomenon.
There is no scientific evidence to suggest that photographic memory can be learned or acquired. Some individuals may have a stronger visual memory than others, but this is not the same as having true photographic memory.
Scientists study photographic memory through various techniques such as cognitive tests, brain imaging, and studying individuals who claim to have photographic memory. However, due to the rarity and difficulty in verifying photographic memory, it remains a largely unexplored topic in scientific research.
No, photographic memory and perfect memory are not the same. Photographic memory refers to the ability to recall visual information in great detail, while perfect memory would entail the ability to recall all types of information with perfect accuracy.
There is no conclusive evidence that having photographic memory is a disadvantage. However, individuals with photographic memory may experience difficulties in filtering out irrelevant information and may struggle with processing and organizing information in a meaningful way.