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<strong>MCM</strong> <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

My Connections<br />

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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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