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179 - The Memory Illusion - Julia Shaw
You Are Not So Smart
Are You Getting This Wrong With a Photographic Memory?
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.
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