{"id":105703,"date":"2026-08-17T03:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/?p=105703"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:17:36","slug":"a-photographic-memory-is-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/?p=105703","title":{"rendered":"A photographic memory is wishful thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

In The Sheep Detectives<\/em>, Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can\u2019t forget anything. He joins a long line of fictional characters with some version of photographic memory\u2009\u2014\u2009a strikingly useful skill, or at least a key plot device. Sherlock Holmes uses perfect recall to solve crimes (as long as, in the case of the BBC television series, it\u2019s in his mind palace). And medical student Joy Kwon\u2019s ability comes to the rescue in The Pitt<\/em>, remembering patient room numbers, symptoms and treatments after the ER loses access to electronic medical records.<\/p>\n

But our brains don\u2019t really work that way.<\/p>\n