It's called eidetic memory

[Shan Bentz]

On 25 Feb 1996, Matthew Taylor wrote:

> geoff miller <gmm at lamar.colostate.edu> wrote:
> >has anyone seen or heard of research being done on the structure of the 
> >brains of people who have photographic memory?
> 
> I'm not sure if photographic memory as such is actually recognised
> as a phenomenon, if by that you mean actual ability to preserve visual 
> images in memory accurately and easily.


Well, the phenomenon is called eidetic memory; there's a great book by 
some guy, last name of LURIA.  It's called _The Mind of a Mnemonist_ or 
something like that...  As far as neuroanatomy is concerned, I don't know 
of any specific research being done; I doubt, however, that there is a 
profound dearth of research on the topic.  

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