Photographic memory is basically just good visual memory, many people on the autistic spectrum have this so called memory eg; they cant imagine soething when asked to such as a church they have to remember a church they’ve seen. but scientists now tend to think that photographic memory is basically a myth.
The American cognitive scientistMarvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind (1988), considered reports of photographic memory to be an “unfounded myth.”<sup id=”cite_ref-20″ class=”reference”>[20]</sup> Furthermore, there is no scientific consensus regarding the nature, the proper definition, or even the very existence of eidetic imagery, even in children.<sup id=”cite_ref-plato.stanford.edu_3-2″ class=”reference”>[3]</sup>
Scientific skeptic author Brian Dunning reviewed the literature on the subject of both eidetic and photographic memory in 2016 and concluded that there is “a lack of compelling evidence that eidetic memory exists at all among healthy adults, and no evidence that photographic memory exists. But there’s a common theme running through many of these research papers, and that’s that the difference between ordinary memory and exceptional memory appears to be one of degree.”<sup> </sup>
A few adults have exceptional memory’s but they are totally unconnected to intelligence.
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