Editing Visual memory (section)

=== Eidetic and photographic memories ===
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Eidetic memory is an ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with high precision for a few minutes without using mnemonics. It occurs in a small number of children and generally is not found in adults.<ref name="Slate 2006">{{cite web |last=Foer |first=Joshua |title=Kaavya Syndrome |url=https://slate.com/technology/2006/04/no-one-has-a-photographic-memory.html |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=2006-04-27 |access-date=2022-02-07 }}</ref>

The popular culture concept of photographic memory—where, for example, someone can briefly look at a page of text and then recite it perfectly from memory—is not the same as seeing eidetic images, and photographic memory has never been demonstrated to exist.<ref name="Slate 2006" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Does Photographic Memory Exist? |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/i-developed-what-appears-to-be-a-ph/ |website=Scientific American |date=2003-01-01 |access-date=2022-02-07 }}</ref>