>>14250847Not photographic memory, but you certainly could improve your memory dramatically in specific domains.
>>14251031>The data is obviously stored.The data isn't stored, a vague impression is stored which is why you can't recall the entire page, but you can recall reading it. Sort of like in the cartoons where the scope on a rifle has a silhouette of the exact shape of the target.
The other thing is what you recall is highly dependent on the mental framework or other memories you can leverage, speaking to this Dutch Psychologist Adriaan de Groot found that Chess Masters couldn't remember "impossible moves" any better than non-players. In the same way that it's a lot harder to remember a nonsense string of letters like 'unkgmjsbgs zbsmkowegr werfms' to a nonsense string of words like 'Green foot rissole hot penguin', the amount of characters could be the same, but it's easier to remember the words than the letters. Actors describe how it is much easier to remember their lines for a script which makes 'emotional sense' than for a bad script where lines are unnatural - presumably because there's a sort of emotive 'logic' that makes one line naturally precede from the previous cue.
When we encode memories we leverage schemata we already have.
>>14251306You can probably thank your amygdala for that.
