What is "eidetic"

Usage examples of "eidetic".

The rarity of eidetic memory, coupled with the fact that to possess such a capacity does not seem to make for much success in life, suggests that it may not be so beneficial a gift.

In the early years of this century there was much interest in eidetic imagery and memory - more than 200 studies on it had been published before 1935, although subsequently it has very much dropped out of the mainstream of psychological research.

The early research suggested that, whereas eidetic memory is relatively rare after puberty, around a half of the elementary school children who were studied appeared to possess it.

In the 1960s and 1970s Ralph Haber, Jan Fentress and their colleagues, following up these studies, found a somewhat smaller proportion of US elementary school children with eidetic memory, but noted that the capacity was widely distributed amongst young children of both sexes, independent of ethnic origin, class or school performance.

Hence the eidetic memory of childhood, enabling rules of perception to be developed, could smoothly transpose at the approach of puberty into the more linear forms of adult memory, whilst incorporating, for each individual, a uniquely tailored set of such rules which would order their later experience.

Meanwhile, each of us is left with the fragmentary eidetic images of our childhood.

We marvel at their talents, perhaps recalling our own childhood eidetic capacities - but usually fail to see at what cost such talents are bought.

Already this chapter has referred to differences between eidetic and linear memory, between recognition and recall memory.

They often began with indistinct or partial images, but as the stimulations proceeded they became clearer, until entire episodes began to be replayed, almost as if the still photographic pictures of eidetic memory were being run through as movies.

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.

Specifically, it manufactures a proteolytic enzyme that breaks down the protein matrix found in the eidetic chip and several related galactic neuroenhancement applications.

Even his legendary eidetic memory would be unable to cope with the present confusion.

I had, have, an eidetic memory, and as soon as I learned to read music, I discovered I could sight-read virtually anything that was put in front of metaking in a page at a glance, then playing it effortlessly.

They often began with indistinct or partial images, but as the stimulations proceeded they became clearer, until entire episodes began to be replayed, almost as if the still photographic pictures of eidetic memory were being run through as movies.

Does a librarian with an eidetic memory feel superior to an absent-minded professor who won a Nobel Prize?