what is the difference between eidectic memory and photographic memory?

Subject: what is the difference between eidectic memory and photographic memory?

Date: Thu Mar 29 09:18:45 2001
Posted by arun
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: madurai State/Province: tamilnadu Country: India
Area of science: Neuroscience
ID: 985875525.Ns

Message:


Can these two be used interchangebly ? do they mean the same?As far as i know 
some children are capable of having a photograph like memory and they can 
recall even minutest details of the visual stimulus even after the stimulus is 
removed.Is this photographic memory or eidectic memory?

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