Eidetic



  1. Eidetic Memory Psychology Definition
  2. Eidetic Memory Test
  3. Eidetic Meaning
  4. Eidetic

In Ryder's room on the Hyperion there is there is a memory trigger. Interacting with the trigger starts a conversation with SAM. SAM explains that it is an eidetic trigger related to Alec and the portions of SAM's memory that he locked. SAM is programmed to unlock blocked memories as you find more memory triggers.

What does eidetic mean? Of, relating to, or marked by extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images. Eight definition: 1. The number 8: 2. The number 8: 3. Eidetic or photographic memory. The terms eidetic memory and photographic memory are commonly used interchangeably, but they are also distinguished. Scholar Annette Kujawski Taylor stated, 'In eidetic memory, a person has an almost faithful mental image snapshot or photograph of an event in their memory.

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eidetic

Eidetic [i-det´ikEidetic]
denoting exact visualization of events or objects previously seen; a person having such an ability.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

ei·det·ic

(Eideticī-det'ik),
1. Relating to the power of visualization of and memory for objects previously seen that reaches its height in children aged 8-10.
2. A person possessing this power to a high degree.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

eidetic

adjective Referring to vividly precise and accurate recollection of objects, events, sounds or other imagery previously perceived.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

ei·det·ic

(ī-det'ik)
1. Relating to the power of visualization of and memory for objects previously seen that peaks in children aged 8-10.
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2. A person possessing this power to a high degree.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

eidetic

Strikingly vivid, detailed and accurate, allowing an extraordinarily lifelike imaging, or sometimes rehearing, of past experience.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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Of, relating to, or marked by extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images.

Eidetic Memory Psychology Definition

adjective
Designating or of mental images that are unusually vivid and almost photographically exact.

Eidetic Memory Test

adjective
Pertaining to a memory or mental image of perfect clarity, as though actually visible; or to a person able to see such memories.
adjective

Eidetic Meaning

Origin of eidetic

Eidetic

  • German eidetischfrom Greek eidosformweid- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Germaneidetisch, from Ancient Greek εἰδητικός (eidetikos), from εἶδος (eidos, “form”).
    From Wiktionary