Does photographic memory exist?
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The Importance of a Photographic Memory
Craig Stark, professor of neurobiology and behaviour at the University of California, Irvine. No one seems able to do well in this test but there don't seem to be any examples of people acing these kind of human camera experiments. What we've learned is that remembering sequences of meaningless dots or coloured squares is really hard. We just have a little spot in our field of view of maybe 10 degrees or something like that where you can actually read text. At that level, unless somebody has actually taken the time to scan over everything, well, it never even made it past the eye much less into your brain. So we know that kind of quick snapshot like a photograph doesn't actually exist.
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