![]() ![]() A psychologist named George Stratton decided to test their claim by sticking pins through the Talmud text to be memorized. Shass Pollaks, scholars who are able to recall accurately 5,422 pages of Talmud, claimed to have done so through photographic memory of the text and the arrangement of the words. While the woman’s ability seems to prove Stromeyer’s case, no repeat testing was performed and no one else has ever been able to replicate the ability so most scientists and psychologists dismiss it as invalid. Stromeyer’s conclusion was that this woman had proven the existence of the photographic memory through her ability to create the 3D image in her mind with information gathered over two days, and through her ability to recall with accuracy the poetry. (Foer 2006) His examinee, Elizabeth, also claimed to be able to recall poetry in foreign languages she did not understand. She had the ability to mentally combine them to create a 3D image. She was shown a picture with 10,0000 random dots in only her right eye, and the next day was given another set of random dots for her left eye. On the pro side is Charles Stromeyer III, a vision scientist, who published a paper about a woman with an unexplainable ability. Various tests have been done in attempts to prove or disprove the existence of eidetic memory but thus far have remained ultimately negative towards the existence of an eidetic memory. The question that many scientists and psychologists have raised is whether or not eidetic memory truly exists or if there are other explanations for why people can recall vast amounts of information with great accuracy based solely on images of the information they are recalling. (Adams 2006) Her ability is self-attributed to a strong eidetic memory which is commonly known as the “photographic” memory, a proposed type of memory in which someone sees an image and recalls it with great accuracy. The Guinness World Record for the most decimal places or pi recited by memory is held by Akira Haraguchi at 83,431 places. ![]()
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