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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]White Hawk said:[/b] I have to second WebShaman on that score. Techniques used to improve memory and observation skills, and tricks used to memorise information, will never match the full function of a photographic memory. It takes time, effort, and discipline in training and application of memory techniques for someone to purposely enhance their capacity for recall, whereas those with photographic memories are usually quite incapable of not memorising every detail they observe (consciously or not). The very manner in which information is processed by the brain differs dramatically in those with true photographic memory.I would love to have that capacity as a brain 'mode' too, but I think it would be awful to be stuck with that all the time. I have enough trouble trying to shoe-horn new memories into my grey matter as it is with the endless piles of useless information I seem to soak up like a sponge.Like Homer Simpson, I fear that every new memory displaces an old one - one day, I'll read an amazing (but utterly useless) fact, and I'll immediately forget who I am! [/quote] ROFLtrue. I wonder if there is some kind of drug that, instead of causing hallucinations or brain damage, simply temporarily and drastically improves the rate, speed, and application of the speed at which information passes from sensory registers into short-term memory, and from there into long-term... Though, being unfamiliar with the science of photographic memory (which I believe is formally called eidetic memory), I would [i]guess[/i] that people with photo-mem have some kind of mechanism that just bypasses short-term memory and copies everything from sensory into long-term automatically... ---------------------- [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/30926][img]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/268/cellu.gif[/img][/url][url=http://davidjcobb.deviantart.com/][img]http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/428/24464470.gif[/img][/url][url=http://getfirefox.com/][img]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6336/25338231.gif[/img][/url][img]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2163/end.gif[/img] Loading...
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