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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Photographic memory

wideboy | 00:03 Wed 08th Aug 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Did anyone ever refer to 'photographic memory' or its like before photography was invented (see today's Mail). I've seen references to Eidetic memory but I'm not convinced.

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kempie

The word 'eidetic' was coined around 1924 and is derived from the German eidetisch, a term used by psychologist Erich R. Jaensch, who did pioneering research on visual acuity and memory, and based on the ancient Greek word eidos meaning image, form, or shape. 'Eidetic memory' later became popularly known as 'photographic memory' and 'total recall'.

This was more than a century after the process of photography ('drawing with light') was discovered and at least 80 years after the term 'photograph' had first entered into popular usage.

Therefore 'eidetic memory' predates 'photographic memory' but not the process of photography itself.

wideboy

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Thanks kempie. I saw this but I wondered if people ever referred to the 'effect' before then - even the Romans/Greeks/Egyptians?

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