Eidetic Imagery - thoughts to ponder...

http://pages.slc.edu/~ebj/minds/student_pages/sally-jane/history.html

Some excerpts from this site:

Eidetic Imagery
Ralph Haber, "Historically, the only definition of eidetic imagery is phenomenological - a description by the subject of what he is seeing."



Gray and Gummerman, the typical definition is

the ability to retain an accurate, detailed visual image of a complex scene or pattern (sometimes popularly known as photographic memory) or the ability, posessed by a minority of people, to 'see' an image that is an exact copy of the original sensory experience.

While the first definition is a bit more exact than the second, both mean that a person who posesses eidetic imagery is able to "see" and describe an image in great detail after that image has been removed from their sight, and can perform this feat for a fairly extensive period of time. These definitions are the basis for the research being done on eidetic imagery today.


Therefore, visual imagery concerns seeing in one's mind an object as if it were right there, when in fact it is not.


http://www.psywww.com/intropsych/ch06_memory/eidetic_imagery.html