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Photographic memory is a myth – here’s what research really says about remembering

  • Written by Gabrielle Principe, Professor of Psychology, College of Charleston
imageYour memory is not a camera.F.J. Jimenez/Moment via Getty Images

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with extraordinary minds who glance once at a page, a room or a face – and later recreate every...

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