According to the journal article Evidence for the Uniqueness of Eidetic Imagery, Haber and Haber (1964) introduced a standard system for the classification of eidetic imagery. In order to test a participant “the subject views a picture placed on a black easel and reports anything that can be seen on the surface of …show more content…
Eidetic imagery is not a well understood phenomenon in the world of neuroscience. Much evidence points towards the concept being entirely fictional because research has not been able to consistently verify the presence of such memory. Because so few eidetikers have been found, it still remains a mystery as to how the phenomenon works neurologically. Such a perspective on the neurological basis for eidetic memory would explain many of the unanswered questions on the topic. In the future, neurological testing may lead to a greater understanding of the location of memory in the brain and what causes such extraordinarily clear and detailed memories to form. The combination of using sophisticated technology and having more people with superior memories come forward, it is possible that many unanswered questions about photographic memory will someday be