MCM Fall 2018
Fashion Statement Entertainmenet, Celebrities-Crossroads, Health and Diet.
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<strong>MCM</strong> <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
My Connections<br />
Magazine<br />
Fashion Statement<br />
Entertainment<br />
Special topic research study project<br />
<strong>MCM</strong> Special Topic: Human Photographic Memory<br />
have it.<br />
You might not have it, that make not everyone<br />
“You might expect that an individual who claims to still see a picture after it<br />
has been removed would be able to have a perfect memory of the original<br />
picture. After all, a perfect memory is what is usually implied by the commonly<br />
used phrase "photographic memory." Scientificamerican.com<br />
Photographic memory is a term often used to describe a person who seems able to recall visual<br />
information in great detail. Just as a photograph freezes a moment in time, the implication for people<br />
thought to have photographic memory is that they can take mental snapshots and then recall these<br />
snapshots without error. However, photographic memory does not exist in this sense.<br />
It is easy to demonstrate this by asking people who think they have photographic memory to read two<br />
or three lines of text and then report the text in reverse order. If memory worked like a photograph,<br />
these people would be able to rapidly reproduce the text in reverse order by "reading" the photo.<br />
However, people cannot do this.<br />
Memory is more like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle than a photograph. To recollect a past<br />
event, we piece together various remembered elements and typically forget parts of<br />
what happened (the color of the wall, the picture in the background, the exact words<br />
that were said). Passing over details helps us to form general concepts.<br />
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