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n. The ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume.
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Eidetic memory (; sometimes called photographic memory) is an ability to vividly recall images from memory after only a few instances of exposure, with high precision for a brief time after exposure, The terms eidetic memory and photographic memory are often used interchangeably:
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without using a mnemonic device. Although the terms eidetic memory and photographic memory may be used interchangeably, they are also distinguished, with eidetic memory referring to the ability to view memories like photographs for a few minutes, and photographic memory referring to the ability to recall page or text numbers, or similar, in great detail. In the case of distinguishing the concepts, eidetic memory has been documented while photographic memory is a popular culture myth that has never been demonstrated to exist.
Eidetic images occur in a small number of children and generally are not found in adults. The word eidetic comes from the Greek word εἶδος (, eidos, "seen").
Usage examples of "eidetic memory".
Sometime back when he'd been an ImpSec lieutenant in his late twenties, then-Emperor Ezar had sent him off to distant Illyrica, to have an experimental eidetic memory-chip installed in his brain.
When nature put eidetic memory into your head, she must have left something else out.
It was planned that eidetic memory would be incorporated in your line either in your generation, or in your father's.
You have an excellent memory, more than adequate for any other purpose, but it's not an eidetic memory.
Moll had explained that her eidetic memory had allowed her to instantly make associations and connections across the engineering disciplines.
It was actually Flint's eidetic memory in operation that seemed to accompany him regardless of the brain of his host.
She closed her eyes, her eidetic memory reviewing page after page until she came to a particular passage.