And savants can have remarkable abilities in specific domains, like memorizing long symphonies or knowing which day of the week a particular date in history fell on. Chess grandmasters can remember where every piece is on a chessboard after looking at it for just five seconds, because to them, the pieces are arranged in meaningful patterns. Sure, there are definitely people who have really great memories. But in real life? It's not clear that photographic memory is actually a thing.
#Get eidetic imagery license
It makes for great TV, especially when you're three-quarters of the way through a police procedural and it would be suuuuuper handy if the roguish private investigator could just happen to remember that license plate he saw as a suspect's car screeched off into the distance.
#Get eidetic imagery full
Pop culture is full of characters who claim to have photographic memories. OK, we're mixing metaphors here, but the point is that if photographic memory sounds a little bit like a magician's trick or a Hollywood cliché, well … that's because it kind of is.
You'd ace that test and ride off into the sunset. On the day of the test, you'd be able to mentally pull up the page the important stuff was on and, like magic, all the info you needed would be there. Wouldn't it be nice, you think, if you had a photographic memory? Then you could just read through everything once. You're on your third mug of tea, your eyes are starting to blur, and no matter what you do, you just can't get the stuff you need to know for that test tomorrow morning to stick. It's 2 AM on a Wednesday night — well, technically, it's Thursday morning — and you're still studying. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: ĭooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters-Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D.
Don't you think it would be nice if you had a photographic memory? But is it actually a thing?
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