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40 An Adult Eidetiker
Charles F, Stromeyer IIL
‘Stromeyer’s “Elizabeth” comes closer to having 2
literally photographic” memory than any other
‘mermorist ever studied. Though Stromeyar roported
Jew tess of her memory in the conventional sense, he
does deseribe several astonishing feats of visual
information storage. As reported here, lizabeth
‘could combine a stereogram presented to her loft exe
‘withthe image of a corresponding stereogram seen
‘with her right eye the day before the result was a
figure perceived in depth, “Elizabeth” may be unique.
In the dozen years since the publication of this paper,
no other such eidetiker has boen found.
Elizabeth fs young teacher at invard very otligent, a sliled at
‘Shobstalent that most palntrs dont have. Atl se can mentally
project an exact innge of pietare or scene onto er canvas or onto
[Bnother suse This hllucinated image appear o contain al ofthe
‘etuled texture and eolor ofthe exile the mage ormed, It
reemains stil and Hizabeth can move her eyes about to Inspect the
Seta,
zabot (ot hor actual name) ays that she ean project heard
‘onto a brandless fio, for example, or lees opto a barren teo—
‘nitions so strong that they ean abscure the true image, However,
the never confuses ldedie mages wth ry, and spontaneous
Imagery carey bothers her.
Her ability to call ad salle Sages not itd wo plecares
‘or ecunes, Yeu aftr having read a poem in a frei language, she
om GF Stim Meideikrs. Pacholagy Today, 170, (ov r-po.
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"he bottom fine tothe op ine as fast as she can wre, She sys that
tho used her eidetic memory for highschool and undergraduate
‘eaminstions, but found i lee useful in graduate eco,
ln a section omitted hare, Strameyer describe the wecomplitments
‘of other “eather.” His st neues S Selection 88) the Shas Pole
‘Selection 30} and edetc children ke those sided by Jaensch Haber,
landers. seams tome however tht these cases shouldbe carl
tdstinguished zabeth’s mental iis nothing ik she more clay
resembles my ove informant MZ described n Selection $7) nth way
‘she fas used her flens: The mental fe oF the Sass Pollak ou;
Seratio's report only describes what they could accomplish Ax for the
dete chien for whom the tenn “dete” wa originally colned-—
Uy are nat realy memories ut al. ter inspecting a plture, sucha
hid may repart that she. can stl See It for a mimi or 0 then it
gradually fades fom view. Eidtie children ae often no more accurate
ln deseribing the picture daring this period tan etal chien who
‘must describe it frame merry alone. Morwoven dy eannot remive
Their rages once Uy have faded)
Im our exporiments with Blizaboth at Harvard we used the
‘computor generated sterograns develope hy Bela uss of Ball Tle
‘phone Laboraorin .. Hach stereogram consist oa pair of randon
‘or pattems: When a person looks st these pattems throug a ster
oscope which provents one patter to the nig eye and the eter
pattor othe at eys, bo seas air emerge in depth, Whin he looks
tthe andor dot pattems without the stawoncope, he can eee nethoe
Figures nor dopth
‘Using only ber right eye, Elizabeth viewed a 10000-dot pattem
fort minute. ARera 10'aeccnd rst, she looked a the ther 10200-dot
pater with her let eye. We askad her to superimpose the eidetic
Image forthe rght-aye alter on the actual lee patorn, stout
Desitaton she ported that sho saw the ltter coming toward bor.
‘Next wo show her both pattems through the ster-awcape and
she said the T as idontial to er eldatic image,
Now wn inverted the lo and right-ye pattoms. When she pro
fected the edt image onto te actual patter, she ea an verted
Thebind the surface. The oselatod in depth, but had sharp outlines.
“ara toa ase of pera fed mg ier br
Sensi 2 "Soeu amnesia te mmc ous soe
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Jn the neat experiment, Elizabeth looked at another randin
