Eidetic memory

{{Main|List of people claimed to possess an eidetic memory}}

{{Main|List of people claimed to possess an eidetic memory}}

There are a number of individuals whose extraordinary memory has been labeled "eidetic", but it is not established conclusively whether they use [[mnemonic]]s and other, non-eidetic memory-enhancement.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} "Sheldon Cooper" From the big bang theory sitcom is a very famous example of this

There are a number of individuals whose extraordinary memory has been labeled "eidetic", but it is not established conclusively whether they use [[mnemonic]]s and other, non-eidetic memory-enhancement.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} "Sheldon Cooper" From the big bang theory sitcom is a very famous example of this.

"Nadia", who began drawing realistically at the age of three, is autistic and has been closely studied. During her childhood, she produced highly precocious, repetitive drawings from memory, remarkable for being in perspective (which children tend not to achieve until at least adolescence) at the age of three, which showed different perspectives on an image she was looking at. For example, at the age of three, she was obsessed with horses: after seeing a horse in a story book, she generated images of what a horse should look like in any posture. She could draw other animals, objects, and parts of human bodies accurately, but represented human faces as jumbled forms.{{Citation | author1=Selfe, Lorna | author2=Selfe, Lorna | title=Nadia: a case of extraordinary drawing ability in an autistic child | date=1977 | publisher=Academic Press | isbn=978-0-12-635750-9}}New Scientist, 1 Dec 1977, Vol. 76, No. 1080 p.577

"Nadia", who began drawing realistically at the age of three, is autistic and has been closely studied. During her childhood, she produced highly precocious, repetitive drawings from memory, remarkable for being in perspective (which children tend not to achieve until at least adolescence) at the age of three, which showed different perspectives on an image she was looking at. For example, at the age of three, she was obsessed with horses: after seeing a horse in a story book, she generated images of what a horse should look like in any posture. She could draw other animals, objects, and parts of human bodies accurately, but represented human faces as jumbled forms.{{Citation | author1=Selfe, Lorna | author2=Selfe, Lorna | title=Nadia: a case of extraordinary drawing ability in an autistic child | date=1977 | publisher=Academic Press | isbn=978-0-12-635750-9}}New Scientist, 1 Dec 1977, Vol. 76, No. 1080 p.577

ISSN 0262-4079 {{Citation | author1=Selfe, Lorna | author2=ProQuest (Firm) | title=Nadia Revisited: A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant | date=2012 | publisher=Taylor and Francis | isbn=978-0-203-82576-1}} Others have not been thoroughly tested, though savant [[Stephen Wiltshire]][[Daniel A. Weiskopf]] (2017) An ideal disorder? Autism as a psychiatric kind, ''Philosophical Explorations'', 20:2, 175-190, {{doi|10.1080/13869795.2017.1312500}}Rebecca Chamberlain, I. C. McManus, Howard Riley, Qona Rankin & Nicola Brunswick (2013) Local processing enhancements associated with superior observational drawing are due to enhanced perceptual functioning, not weak central coherence, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66:7, 1448-1466, {{doi|10.1080/17470218.2012.750678}}Gillian J. Furniss (2008) Celebrating the Artmaking of Children with Autism, Art Education, 61:5, 8-12, {{doi|10.1080/00043125.2008.11518990}} can look at a subject once and then produce, often before an audience, an accurate and detailed drawing of it, and has drawn entire cities from memory, based on single, brief helicopter rides; his six-metre drawing of 305 square miles of New York City is based on a single twenty-minute helicopter ride.{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1211299.stm|work=[[BBC News]]|date=10 March 2001|title=Unlocking the brain's potential|access-date=8 November 2007}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/nyregion/28about.html?_r=0|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=27 October 2009|title=Like a Skyline Is Etched in His Head|access-date=23 February 2013}} Another less thoroughly investigated instance is the art of [[Winnie Bamara]], an Australian indigenous artist of the 1950s.K. V. Parish, 'The remarkable art of Winnie Bamara', ''The Sunday Mail'', February 14, 1959, p.7

ISSN 0262-4079 {{Citation | author1=Selfe, Lorna | author2=ProQuest (Firm) | title=Nadia Revisited: A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant | date=2012 | publisher=Taylor and Francis | isbn=978-0-203-82576-1}} Others have not been thoroughly tested, though savant [[Stephen Wiltshire]][[Daniel A. Weiskopf]] (2017) An ideal disorder? Autism as a psychiatric kind, ''Philosophical Explorations'', 20:2, 175-190, {{doi|10.1080/13869795.2017.1312500}}Rebecca Chamberlain, I. C. McManus, Howard Riley, Qona Rankin & Nicola Brunswick (2013) Local processing enhancements associated with superior observational drawing are due to enhanced perceptual functioning, not weak central coherence, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66:7, 1448-1466, {{doi|10.1080/17470218.2012.750678}}Gillian J. Furniss (2008) Celebrating the Artmaking of Children with Autism, Art Education, 61:5, 8-12, {{doi|10.1080/00043125.2008.11518990}} can look at a subject once and then produce, often before an audience, an accurate and detailed drawing of it, and has drawn entire cities from memory, based on single, brief helicopter rides; his six-metre drawing of 305 square miles of New York City is based on a single twenty-minute helicopter ride.{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1211299.stm|work=[[BBC News]]|date=10 March 2001|title=Unlocking the brain's potential|access-date=8 November 2007}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/nyregion/28about.html?_r=0|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=27 October 2009|title=Like a Skyline Is Etched in His Head|access-date=23 February 2013}} Another less thoroughly investigated instance is the art of [[Winnie Bamara]], an Australian indigenous artist of the 1950s.K. V. Parish, 'The remarkable art of Winnie Bamara', ''The Sunday Mail'', February 14, 1959, p.7