> Eidetic memory (more commonly called photographic memory) is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision for a brief period after seeing it

> Eidetic memory (more commonly called photographic memory) is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision for a brief period after seeing it only once, and without using a mnemonic device. 'for a brief period' is key here. Also from the same wikipedia article: > Each year at the World Memory Championships, the world's best memorizers compete for prizes. None of the world's best competitive memorizers has a photographic memory, and no one with claimed eidetic or photographic memory has ever won the championship. ... > According to Herman Goldstine, the mathematician John von Neumann was able to recall from memory every book he had ever read. That's just what some guy said. > There are many examples of people with prodigious natural gifts for memory and more who trained it. For example? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_possess_an_eidetic_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_poss... > A number of people claim to have eidetic memory, but science has never found a single verifiable case of photographic memory.