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Eidetic Imagery
Eidetic imagery is the ability to retain an accurate visual image of a complex scene
or pattern shortly after looking at it. The scene can then be described in detail
for a short time. Eidetic imagery is a trait possessed by about 5% of children.
The ability to form eidetic images is very rare past adolescence.
To produce an eidetic image, a person must study a scene for some time and must
actively concentrate on this scene to retain it in memory. These images fade quickly
when the attention is diverted to something else. Naming or identifying parts of
the scene tend to interrupt the ability to form an eidetic image. Thus it is very
difficult to form an eidetic memory of text.
Sometimes eidetic imagery is called photographic memory. This term is not exactly
accurate because this type of memory is not formed like a photograph; eidetic images
can be fragmentary and are not necessarily more accurate than normal memories. Additionally,
photographic memory is a learned skill rather than a trait you are born with. For
example, some people demonstrate impressive memory abilities, with feats like
memorizing the number pi out to thousands of digits. Sometimes these people
are described as having photographic memories. In reality, photographic memory is
simply the successful application of effective memory techniques. In that respect,
photographic memory is a learned skill that you can eventually acquire. Email to
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ADAPTING TO THE ENVIRONMENT: CHANGING INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIOUR
A key feature which distinguishes mammals from the reptiles from which they evolved
would seem to be that the mammalian brain contains organs for the experience-based
recognition of danger and for responding to this according to past experience. And
for some conscious feelings about events.
Millions of neural pathways connect the organs which generate experience-based
memories, and also those which generate conscious feelings with associated behavioural
response patterns, to the reptilian parts of the mammalian brain.
It seems that feelings such as attachment, anger and fear have emerged with associated
behavioural response patterns, and that behaviour is less rigidly controlled by
instincts.
So it seems that instinctive behaviour can be modified by feelings of care and
affection and also by experience, particularly when repeated frequently.
Neural pathways are created and strengthened by being used, others weakened by
not being used. We react accordingly and it seems as if memories are being created
which modify instinctive behavioural responses.
It also seems that instinctive behaviour has to be controlled, and modified according
to the environment in which we find ourselves, in every generation, and that the
mammalian and human parts of the brain play a major part in this.