Is there really anything to say about photographic memory?

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Suppose you have a final exam tomorrow, you are reading, reading more, but the syllabus is not finished. Whatever you are reading, it seems to have forgotten the previous one. That's what we all had in life, is not it? I do not think so, if I had photographic memory, how good it would be! Once I could see, all the head went into the head, I used to scrutinize and experiment! Then the strongest fort! Who can stop the best results!

It sounds like a cinematic, is not it? In the cinematic way, in the photographic memory of Superman's Lex Luther, the character of X Man's Professor X, we see the existence of photographic memory.

But what is really photographic memory in the real life of the screen? We can see people with good memory. Chess grandmasters look at the chess board for five seconds to memorize the memory of everyone's position. The Rubik's Cube, which matches fast, they can also keep looking at how to have a complete cube. Of course, they can do this because they have different positions of chewing gum and ruby ​​cube decorations are shaped like a pattern on the head. Then there is a disorder called hyperthyosmia or 'some disease of the disease'. People with this disease can not forget anything in their daily life, and the patient does not have any control over this matter. But in photographic memory we understand something different - somebody looked at someone, took a mental picture, and then remembered the scene as a whole picture.

We look back a bit to see if such a photographic memory is actually a prelude.

A study was published in the Journal of Natural History in the 1970s. There is a woman named Elizabeth, who owns a photographic memory. On the test of his, he is shown two different dot patterns separately, which will be seen as a familiar symbol or character. After showing them to Elizabeth, she could say, what is the letter or symbol? He was able to tell the foreign language, the language he did not know, the poem of that language, also once he could remember.

The study then sacked the scientist. Other scientists also started researching the matter. In 1979 John Merit, another researcher, published a photographic memory test and published it in popular newspapers.

Nearly one million people tried to solve his test, only 30 were successful. He meets with 15 people directly, but can not show evidence of those people and photographic memory in front of them. So Elizabeth still remains uniquely.

But there is no guarantee of the truth about Elizabeth's story. After this study was published, it was proposed to test more, but he did not agree. And, the author of the study and Elizabeth is tied to a marriage shortly after.

So, the results of that research were not influenced by any other emotional curiosity, is there any guarantee of that?

Despite this incident, many people claim that they have photographic memory. But after scientific examination, it was found that none of them actually had anything like this, somebody had shown a good memory in the field, that somebody's claim was absolutely false.

But there is a matter of photographic memory but in nature. Its name is 'Ideal Imagery'. It's not quite like a photographic memory, but it's also interesting to think about idiomatic imagery.

Those who have ideate images, they are called eddictors. They can actually continue to see the picture after seeing the picture after seeing the picture, and the description can be very small. The experience of seeing the picture of them is also the real reality of seeing it, just like that. There is also a difference between the experience of watching the real picture with the viewing experience, which can also be made in mind. But the picture usually disappears within a few minutes of the eyes, and disappears even when the eyes are closed or the eyelids disappear. And once it disappears from the eye, it does not return. Also, when the image is in front of the eyes, it can not be written down, so we think of doing with photographic memory, it is not possible to actually do it with ideographic imagery.

But the strange thing is that this idiomatic image is seen only in children, its appearance in adults is not yet available. And even for the children, as they grow older, the ability to see this image decreases. So researchers are thinking that the loss of the idétic imagery is part of the normal development possible. But many people also say that as we grow older, our thinking is more language-based. We think in words, not in the picture. And when we create the word for an object, then we can not create the object's ideographic image. That is why the idiomatic image is lost in the language immediately after it becomes efficient.

But as soon as the efficiency of a child's language increases, its ideological image is decreasing, it is not always the case, there are exceptions in some studies. So this explanation may be wrong.

Again, it is also found that the idiomatic image produces alpha-wave activation of the brain's optical lymph. Alpha-Wave activity is usually the time of people taking a rest in the awake state while resting, while the eyes are closed while looking at the ideatic image.