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[โ€“] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eidetic memory is an older term.

[โ€“] theinternetftw@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

eidetic - "pertaining to the faculty of projecting images," 1924, from German eidetisch, coined by German psychologist Erich Jaensch [n.b. born 1883, died 1940], from Greek eidetikos "pertaining to images," also "pertaining to knowledge," from eidesis "knowledge," from eidos "form, shape"