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	Learn more about Memory in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Memory is one of the activities of the human mind, much studied by cognitive psychology.
		Sensory memory is characterized by the duration of memory retention from miliseconds to seconds and short-term memory from seconds to minutes.
		The definition of working memory, which is erroneously used as a synonym of short-term memory, is based on not only the duration of memory retention but also the way how it is used in daily life activities.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/me/memory.html (835 words)

	Eidetic memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Photographic memory, eidetic memory, or total recall, is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume.
		Support for the belief that eidetic memory could be a myth was supplied by the psychologist Adriaan de Groot, who conducted an experiment into the ability of chess Grandmasters to memorise complex positions of chess pieces on a chess board.
		Megumi Minami, one of the students in this school and the lead female character, is known to have a photographic memory that helps her solve cases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Photographic_memory (1264 words)

	William Claxton - Photographic Memory - The Digital Journalist
		A photographic image, a work of art as a record of a moment in time, is the way we remember our world.
		And what we see in a photograph is always a mix of what we bring to it - how we feel about the subject, how we respond to what we see - and what the photographer has created out of light and movement and place.
		Although best known for his jazz photographs, Photographic Memory - a book-in-progress planned for publication in fall 2001 - reveals Claxton as a versatile artist whose subject is the human face and the human form.
	www.digitaljournalist.org /issue0103/claxton_intro.htm (1004 words)

	Frequently asked questions about memory
		While one cannot completely discount the possibility of a photographic memory, since there have been some very rare individuals with truly extraordinary powers of memory, those examples of outstanding memory that have been studied have all turned out to be due to the use of powerful memory strategies.
		The lesson we can draw from most examples of "photographic memory" is that there are truly effective memory strategies, and anyone who wants to put in the requisite time and energy can achieve such a powerful memory.
		It is true that memory performance begins to decline after the mid-forties, but the effects of age on memory are complex, as memory itself is complex.
	www.memory-key.com /MemoryGuide/faq.htm (1950 words)

	Duke Magazine-Q & A-Photographic Memory-May/June 2003
		For me to photograph someone and not identify them suggests that either I didn't know them or that this individual is supposed to stand for lots and lots of people, and that in itself can be a very dehumanizing, undermining kind of representation.
		One of the things that has happened in the last twenty years in the discussion of documentary representation is a better sense of the responsibility of the documentarian not only to communicate broad issues through their work but to be sensitive to the individual lives they explore.
		You take a photograph he might have taken of a boy in a glassworks factory and put under it "This boy is eight years old, goes to work at six a.m., and leaves at eight p.m.
	www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /dukemag/issues/050603/depqa.html (1132 words)

	Collective Worship (S): Photographic Memory
		These are the same images used in 'Photographic Memories' earlier this term (except for Photo 4).
		Photographic memory is the ability to retain an accurate, detailed visual image of a complex scene or pattern.
		So - sometimes our memory is not as good as we'd like it to be - and often that is because we didn't see the reality in the first place.
	www.culham.ac.uk /cw/assemblies/031s_memory.php (995 words)

	The Straight Dope: Is there such a thing as "photographic memory"?
		A guy I knew in college claimed to be doing his graduate thesis on photographic memory and how one could acquire it.
		Handy though it might be for your next biology exam, photographic memory in the popular sense is probably a myth.
		Eidetic memory, to use the clinical term, is the ability to recollect an image so vividly that it appears to be real.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/000901.html (788 words)

	Develop Photographic Memory
		Unaware that such memory feats were unusual, Shereshevski was found to have a perfect memory by a neurologist called AR Luria.
		Whilst S was supposed to have a perfect memory, Luria found that he naturally used a strategy whereby things he experienced would induce simultaneous vivid, distinctive and consistent associations.
		Further proof of the myth of the Photographic Memory.
	www.deep-trance.com /skill-model/photographic-memory.html (303 words)

	Photographic Memory> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The popular explanation for such feats is photographic memory--the ability to mentally photograph a visual scene and then recall it in precise detail.
		According to most psychologists, however, photographic memory is probably a myth.
		For example, one experiment showed that while chess experts can reconstruct realistic board positions from memory, when the pieces were placed randomly on the board the experts' memory was no better than ordinary players.
	amos.indiana.edu /library/scripts/photomemory.html (245 words)

	Photographic Memory Training How you can help develop a Photographic Memory
		People with a photographic memory are always considered to have superior memories.
		In its ultimate form this ability is called Eidetic memory: Such as the ability to look at a page in a book, and then recall it word for word, and remember it for a long time.
		When we are young we often have this ability to recall vivid images, and to exercise our eidetic imagination, but gradually in adolescence we lose this facility as our mind become more focussed on, and interested in what is happening in the world around us.
	www.memoryskills.com.au /page%20ten.htm (678 words)

	Kunken Eidectic Memory Quotient
		There is very little research available that provides an accurate assessment as to the level of eidectic memory acuity inherent in members of large populations.
		Some believe that photographic memory otherwise known as eidectic memory is a fallacy, while others contend that there are just few people with such an exceptional ability.
		'Photographic Memory' in Mice: A Transgenic Approach to Elucidate the Role of CREB as a Molecular Switch from Short-Term to Long-Term Memory in Mammals by Akiko Ogasawara
	balder.prohosting.com /~eidectic (300 words)

	'Photographic Memory' in Mice: A Transgenic Approach to Elucidate the Role of CREB as a Molecular Switch from ...
		'Photographic Memory' in Mice: A Transgenic Approach to Elucidate the Role of CREB as a Molecular Switch from Short-Term to Long-Term Memory in Mammals
		Memory comes in many forms; some memories last a lifetime while others fade in just a few seconds.
		Studies in sea slugs and fruit flies indicate that a certain protein serves as a molecular switch for converting memory to a long lasting form; memory is transformed into a permanent form when the switch is on, whereas it remains transient when the switch is off.
	www.mit.edu /afs/athena.mit.edu/course/other/biojournal/volume1/vol2/ogasawar.html (456 words)

	Overview - How to Develop Photographic Memory - Memory Improvement Techniques
		The Center for Memory Mechanics is a unique online reference center designed to assist students of all ages in studying any subject.
		The memory improvement material on this website has the potential to make a tremendous difference in your life.
		The book begins by building a foundation that includes a combination of ancient memory methods and his own unique training tools, which leads to the use of the Quincunx.
	www.photographicqmemory.com /memory-howto.htm (479 words)

	Wild Talents - Synesthesia - Photographic Memory
		Regardless of photographic memory hereditary levitation though, most such mental mathematics can be learned through the astral projection, left handers training.
		Clairvoyance ability method, clairaudience the supermemory firewalking was studied by calendar lightning calculating at the levitation glossolalia astral projection photographic memory sticking a remote viewing needle through his xenoglossia without his left handers blindfold chess playing mental mathematics radiesthesia pain, left handers or human calculator, psychokinesis.
		Studies radiesthesia remote viewing peasants and natives wild talents in primitive jungle conditions of the world have shown that psychokinesis, photographic memory and senility Charles Fort with firewalking and calendar lightning calculating hearing losses are telepathy supermemory nonexistent, synesthesia.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Photographic Memory - William Claxton - Hardcover - 1ST
		Many of William Claxton's photographs of American jazz musicians have become the iconic images by which we remember them--a young Chet Baker lying on his back in the studio, trumpet in hand; Bill Evans and Ray Charles at their pianos; a sparkling Sarah Vaughan; a somber Miles Davis; and countless more.
		Less well known is the fact that since the early 1950s, Claxton has also photographed scores of actors, directors, writers, artists, singers, and entertainers from outside the world of jazz.
		Photographic Memory, his first-ever monograph of these images, features more than 100 such wonderful and revealing portraits, only a handful of which have ever been seen before.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=6TVO2TJ5LD&sourceid=00002109296064557877&bfdate=10%2D22%2D2002%2B15%3A56%3A01&isbn=1576870855 (407 words)

	Photographic Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This article talks at length about the common conceptions of what photographic memory is and where the concept comes from.
		Probably the most prevelent contributing concept to photographic memory is that of eidetic imagery -- a condition found mostly in children that allows them to study a picture for 30 seconds and recall it with few mistakes.
		i don't think you can photograph memories either but i have an experience that's close to it: for some reason, if i emember book excerpts, (mostly harry potter ones) i can tell u excactly what part of the page it is in and if its on the right or left of the page.
	cognews.com /1065163951/index_html (2054 words)

	Eidetic memory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Photographic memory, or eidetic memory, is the ability to recall (An iconic mental representation) images, (The sudden occurrence of an audible event) sounds, or (A tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) objects in (An electronic memory device) memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume.
		However, Dr. (additional info and facts about Marvin Minsky) Marvin Minsky, in his book (additional info and facts about The Society of Mind) The Society of Mind, claims to have been unable to verify claims of eidetic memory (see sections 15.3 & 15.6) and considers reports of eidetic memory to be an "unfounded myth".
		For example, Hideaki Tomoyori correctly recited the first 40,000 decimals of (The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet) pi in March 1987, and on November 3, 1994, Tom Groves memorized the order of cards in a randomly shuffled 52-card deck in 42.01 seconds.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ei/eidetic_memory.htm (914 words)

	Memory and Learning: Myths and Truths
		Memories are stored in a finite number of states of finite receptors in finite synapses in a finite volume of the human central nervous system.
		Anecdotal evidence points to historical and legendary figures able of incredible feats of memory such as learning 56 languages by the age of 17, memorizing 100,000 hadiths, showing photographic memory lasting for years, etc. No wonder that it leads to the conviction that it is possible to memorize Britannica word for word.
		The two-component model of long-term memory shows that fluency is related to the memory variable called retrievability, while the length of the period in which we can retain memories is related to another variable called stability.
	www.supermemo.com /articles/myths.htm (10026 words)

	Re: what is the difference between eidetic memory and photographic memory?
		The two phrases "photographic memory" and "eidetic imagery" are used interchangeably.
		There is some thought that auditory memory may function in the same manner in some people - sort of a 'tape-recorder memory'.
		It was found that minor changes (perhaps unreliable) had occurred in the precision of eidetic projection (or memory), and that both women retained their ability to project a seen circle onto a target square and compare the two for "goodness of fit." (Eidetic imagery in two subjects after 46 years.
	www.madsci.org /posts/archives/apr2001/986860210.Ns.r.html (188 words)

	Hypnosis Photographic Memory, Picture Perfect Recollections
		Hypnosis photographic memory is the perfect and easiest way to improve the power of mind.
		Hypnosis for photographic memory is no longer a story of “believe it or not”.
		This hypnosis photographic memory will help you to recollect obscure things that you think are lost.
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	Photographic memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		RocketReader speed reading and photographic memory software has a special facility where you can design your own memory tests.
		Photographic memory software is perfect for examination or test preparation, or simply learning facts, or trivia.
		RocketReader speed reading and photographic memory software uses a computerized tachitoscope that generates quick visual images at precisely measured intervals, which develops perception, and visualization.
	www.rocketreader.com /seapm.html (129 words)

	A photographic memory - Los Angeles Times
		Julius Shulman's photographs of West Coast Modernist architecture introduced it to the rest of the world.
		It's 10 o'clock, and the tri-level Modernist mini-manse near the crest of Laurel Canyon Boulevard is swathed in sharp morning sunlight, the Rudolf M. Schindler design aglow against a sky of L.A. blue.
		An architectural photographer's mission is to capture a building's character and personality, as well as its skeleton and skin, says Michael Arden, a photography lecturer at USC's School of Architecture.
	latimes.com /features/home/la-hm-shulman3mar03,0,2269747.story?... (961 words)

	How to Develop A Photographic Memory
		In World War II, one method used to help gunners speed up their aircraft identification skills was to flash photographs on a screen of the planes they had to recognize.
		The fact that the subjects could acquire a readable image of a whole book page suggests that their peripheral vision happened to be, or became, more acute than that normally found in the general population.
		This form of retained visual images may not be accomplished with the same process as done by people who have what is called photographic memories.
	www.ebicom.net /~rsf1/fun/phot-mem.htm (707 words)

	Eidetic Imagery: Raising More Questions than Answers
		People capable of eidetic memory, or eidetikers, are therefore able to recall vivid images within their mind and examine these images as one would examine a photograph.
		Although some write off eidetic memory as the ability to organize vast amounts of information, others have found that this ability cannot be used to explain all the cases studied.
		Elizabeth could be placed at the far end of the spectrum; the fact that she is an adult, has such a long span of memory and illustrates unique image decomposition all suggest that she is very rare eidetiker.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro00/web2/Arnaudo.html (1644 words)

	Photographic Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fort Lauderdale photographer Michael Joseph had just been at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, shooting for a New York City-themed show he had scheduled for exhibit in Boca Raton.
		Joseph was certainly confident that he’d been making a real contribution to the art world, but now, he believed, he had a piece of work unique enough to validate what he had decided to do with his life a decade ago.
		Gradually, thanks to the grassroots effort, Joseph’s image is becoming a signature memorial of the towers and the infamous tragedy.
	www.citylinkmagazine.com /cover/coverstory041702.html (3364 words)

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	Photographic Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The psychological term for photographic memory is 'eidectic memory', and it has been quite controversial.
		There are some rare individuals who are known as eidetikers who possess a genuinely 'photographic memory, where 'photographic' means registering visual images in great detail so that they can later be inspected like photographs.
		Eidectic memory is thought to be more common in childhood, which makes Elizabeth's stereoscopic feat even more remarkable.
	pages.slc.edu /~ebj/memory04/questions-answers/photographic.htm (287 words)

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