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Eidetic Memory: Encyclopedia - Eidetic Memory
Photographic memory, eidetic memory, or total recall, is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy a...
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Eidetic Memory: Encyclopedia Ii - Eidetic Memory - Controversy
Dr. Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind, claims to have been unable to verify claims of eidetic memory (see sections 15.3 &...
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Eidetic Memory: Encyclopedia Ii - Eidetic Memory - Controversy
Dr. Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind, claims to have been unable to verify claims of eidetic memory (see sections 15.3 &...
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Visual Memory: Encyclopedia - Visual Memory
Visual memory is a part of memory preserving some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience. We are able to place in ...
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Mnemonist: Encyclopedia - Mnemonist
The title Mnemonist (derived from the term Mnemonic) refers to an individual with the ability to remember and recall unusually long lists...
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Autistic Savant: Encyclopedia - Autistic Savant
An autistic savant or idiot savant is a person with extraordinary mental abilities, often in numerical calculation, but sometimes in art ...
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Picture Thinking: Encyclopedia - Picture Thinking
Picture thinking, visual thinking or visual/spatial learning is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing, where most people w...
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Total Recall: Encyclopedia - Total Recall
Total recall may mean:
Total recall (memory), a term for Eidetic or Photographic memory.
Total Recall, the 1990 science fiction film sta...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia - Asperger Syndrome
Asperger syndrome (sometimes called Asperger's syndrome, AS, or the more common shorthand Asperger's), is characterized as one of the fiv...
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Visual Memory: Encyclopedia Ii - Visual Memory - Eidetic Imagery
Eidetic imagery is perhaps the only kind that produces actual visual memory that can be looked at similarly as if at looking the actual p...
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Picture Thinking: Encyclopedia Ii - Picture Thinking - A Mixed Blessing
Although picture thinking offers many unique capabilities, in practice many picture thinkers have had a hard time adapting to the demands...
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Picture Thinking: Encyclopedia Ii - Picture Thinking - Dimensions Of Picture Thinkers
In psychology, picture thinking is often confused with dyslexia, and it is true that people who 'think in pictures' often have difficulty...
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Picture Thinking: Encyclopedia Ii - Picture Thinking - Characteristics Of Visual Thinking
What a picture thinker is or does is still debated, but some research has been done in the Netherlands where they call picture thinking b...
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Ruse Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Ruse Comics - Characters
The series focused on two primary protagonists: Simon Archard and Emma Bishop. The relationship between the two attractive leads remains ...
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Stu Ungar: Encyclopedia Ii - Stu Ungar - From Gin To Poker To Drugs
Ungar was originally a champion gin player. When he was 10 years old in 1963, he won a local tournament. By 1967, he was regarded as one ...
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Digital Fortress: Encyclopedia Ii - Digital Fortress - Plot
Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician, head of National Security Agency's cryptography division, finds herself faced with an unbreaka...
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Starman Jones: Encyclopedia Ii - Starman Jones - Plot Summary
After his father dies and his stepmother remarries, Max Jones runs away from the family farm. Following the ring road to a hobo camp, he ...
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Picture Thinking: Encyclopedia Ii - Picture Thinking - Information Processing In Visual Thinking
Thinking visually is often associated with the right half of the brain. The visual-spatial learner model is based on the newest discoveri...
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Digital Fortress: Encyclopedia Ii - Digital Fortress - Criticism
The factual liberties mentioned above have spawned criticism.
The novel has also been criticized for its short-attention-span writing sty...
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Autistic Savant: Encyclopedia Ii - Autistic Savant - Abilities
A person with an extraordinary single mental skill but an otherwise unexceptional intellect, may be described simply as a savant, without...
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Stu Ungar: Encyclopedia Ii - Stu Ungar - Final Years
In 1997, Ungar was deeply in debt, but he once again received the $10,000 buy-in from Baxter. Ungar clearly showed physical damage from h...
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Burkhard Heim: Encyclopedia Ii - Burkhard Heim - Heim's Life And Health
Heim had to undergo a series of operations (at least 50 according to [2]) after the explosion which resulted in the loss of his arms. He ...
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Digital Fortress: Encyclopedia Ii - Digital Fortress - Artistic License
The main premise of the book is that there exists a supercomputer that can decrypt any encrypted message through brute force, no matter w...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Culture
Many people with Asperger syndrome generally refer to themselves in casual conversation as the more affectionate "aspie" or "aspy." Other...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Prevalence
A 1993 total population study carried out in Sweden found that, at a minimum, 3.6 per 1000 school-aged children definitely meet the crite...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Characteristics
The most common and important characteristics of Asperger syndrome can be divided into several broad categories: social impairments, narr...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Relationship To Autism
Experts generally agree that there is no single condition called autism. Rather, there is a spectrum of autistic disorders, with differen...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Possible Causes And Origins
The causes and origins of Asperger syndrome are an area of debate and controversy. Current thought among most stipulates that the causes ...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Possible Causes And Origins
The causes and origins of Asperger syndrome are an area of debate and controversy. Current thought among most stipulates that the causes ...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Prevalence
A 1993 total population study carried out in Sweden found that, at a minimum, 3.6 per 1000 school-aged children definitely meet the crite...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Definitions And Diagnostic Criteria
Asperger syndrome is defined in section 299.80 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as
Qualitative impa...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - A Gift And A Curse
With the increase of Asperger syndrome diagnoses, its image continues to shift from that of a disease to a more complex view of a syndrom...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Criticisms And Controversies
Asperger syndrome - Asperger syndrome as a social construct.
Some people, including some people diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, argue...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Relationship To Autism
Experts generally agree that there is no single condition called autism. Rather, there is a spectrum of autistic conditions, with differe...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Living With Asperger Syndrome
Asperger syndrome usually leads to problems in social interaction with peers. These can be severe, especially in childhood and adolescenc...
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Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - Living With Asperger Syndrome
Asperger syndrome usually leads to problems in social interaction with peers. These can be severe, especially in childhood and adolescenc...
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