Experts no longer believe in photographic memory. Here’s what convinced them
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/photographic-memory-wrong
A Science Focus longread article by me on the science of eidetic (photographic) memory, and how the brain deals with memory in general.
#Brains #Memory #Neuroscience
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)
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