Like how is it developed and, and are there any ways to improve memory.
2006-09-29 05:47:28 · 10 answers · asked by jay z 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
It is well known that some idiot savants have a highly developed memory, allowing them to read entire books in minutes
True photographic memory like this is very rare and as far as I understand stems from the inability of the conscious mind to filter out memories from the subconscious so everything is retained and recalling these memories is easy, but the price to pay is a deficit in specific regions of the brain which controls our intelligence and other essential higher functions, including imagination. Our imagination often blurs our ability to recall things with a significant degree of accuracy, unless it somehow makes an impression on us. Witness reports are notoriously unreliable for this reason. Did the girl wear white or blue dress? Idiot savants dont have much of an imagination
Memory champions like Tony Buzan do not have photographic memories at all but they do regularly exercise their powers of memory and have a few tricks at their disposal such as word associations and mind maps which helps them
2006-09-29 06:35:27 · answer #1 · answered by MrSandman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Photographic memory is just a way of learning, for these people it is easier to remember charts, diagrams and figures than text. it is what you have trained you brain to function most effectively on. Matter of practice
2006-09-29 05:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately I am out of film.
2006-10-01 08:08:54 · answer #3 · answered by ebonyruffles 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i believe that we are both born with the skill of a photographic reminiscence or that we are no longer. i do no longer imagine that is a few thing that we may be able to receive in existence. some individuals might want to have extra perfect options that others, yet to have a photographic reminiscence, you want to be born with the skill.
2016-12-04 00:57:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Born with it. You could try memory exercises, apparently they help. Like think of something one day and try to remember it the next and keep adding to it...or something like that
Nice name, my son's initials are J. Z. (no not after the rapper)
2006-09-29 05:50:22 · answer #5 · answered by Sexy_Bunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Practice, Practice, Practice.
2006-09-29 11:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by Sunshine14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No drink, no smoke, no drugs. Evelyn Wood had a course years ago and ther are others.
2006-09-29 06:00:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You dont "get it", its something you just are blessed with.
2006-09-29 05:51:02 · answer #8 · answered by Kuiper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you have to already have it.
2006-09-29 05:49:39 · answer #9 · answered by Lindsay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're BORN with it!
2006-09-29 05:54:21 · answer #10 · answered by Joogie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋