On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Darren Poulton wrote:
>> Eidetic Imagery is the 'technical term' for what is commonly known as a
> photographic memory. The rare individual who posesses this talent also
> perform amazingly well with imagery tasks. Nowhere in my understanding is
> Eidetic Imagery linked with imagination.
>
I don't really want to get involved in the quite unnecessary flames in
this post (which I've deleted), but I would like to make a correction.
The original work on eidetic imagery (carried out by Haber, I recall),
was quite explicit in distinguishing it from "photograpbic memory".
Unfortunately, I can no longer recall exactly what the distinction was,
except that he was quite emphatic that it was not the same thing.
-Stephen
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