A photographic memory, especially the kind we think of in fictional characters, isn't really a thing. Even those people who are as close to this as we can get, even those people are prone to false memories if you try to get them done. So they basically, their foundation is much higher than ours in terms of remembering something in a specific category. This person's particular island of genius may be building structures or some visual outlines. But if you ask them to remember facts, they're probably just as bad or worse than the average person.
Our guest on this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion, Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.
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