![]() You may have heard that Teddy Roosevelt could repeat aloud entire newspaper pages as if he was reading from it, or of artists like Arturo Toscanini, who was able to conduct the opera from memory after his eyesight became too poor to read the music. The phenomenon where you have instantaneous recall of any and all events by uniting your visual, spatial, audio, and verbal memories is not possible by humans. Is it the same as a photographic memory? Iconic Memory is Not The Same as a Photographic Memory The question is… how is it like a camera taking a picture? ![]() Apparently, this happens in your brain, even if you have aphantasia. In other words, your brain takes a snapshot of every image it “sees” and stores that as an after-image only for a few seconds in your iconic memory. But your mind’s eye can still visualize (albeit briefly) what the room looked like in the luminance of the bulb. You come home one evening and as you turn on the living room light the bulb burns out, leaving you in darkness.Your friend shows you the cover of the book for just a brief moment before hiding it, leaving you with only the impression, or iconic memory, of what the book’s cover looked like. ![]()
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