Are there varying degrees of photographic memory?

There is a definite difference between eidetic and photographic memory. Everyone has an eidetic memory. However, this memory lasts less than one second for most people, no more than a few seconds for others. Most photographic memories only last a few months at most, as they are not relayed to long-term memory.

What type of memory is photographic?

Eidetic (Photographic) Memory is a rare form of sensory memory. It is the ability to recall images, sounds or objects in memory with extreme accuracy and in abundant volume, as if the person were still experiencing the stimuli.

Is there such a thing as a photographic memory and if so can it be learned?

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.

How is eidetic memory different from photographic memory?

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 …

What is the technical term for photographic memory?

eidetic imagery
In the scientific literature, the term eidetic imagery comes closest to what is popularly called photographic memory. The most common way to identify eidetikers (as people with eidetic imagery are often called) is by the Picture Elicitation Method.

Is it possible to demonstrate that memory works like a photo?

It is easy to demonstrate this by asking people who think they have photographic memory to read two or three lines of text and then report the text in reverse order. If memory worked like a photograph, these people would be able to rapidly reproduce the text in reverse order by “reading” the photo. However, people cannot do this.

What is the difference between photographic memory and photogenic memory?

Photogenic memory works much differently. With photographic memory, the image of the object is preserved in short-term or long-term memory. The person who has a photographic memory can close their eyes and see the object in their mind’s eye just as clearly as if they had taken a photograph, even days or weeks after they saw the object.

Do you have a photographic or eidetic memory?

However, while most people make some limited use of eidetic memory, photographic memory is rarer. There have been many studies into people who claim to have a photographic memory. Some of the most famous people to have impressive memories include Charles Darwin, Nikola Tesla, and Teddy Roosevelt.

What is a binary image?

Binary images are often created from the gray-scale images via a threshold operation, where every pixel above the threshold value is turned white (‘1’), and those below it are turned black (‘0’). In the figure below, we see examples of binary images. (a) (b)