semi-eidetic

Example Sentences

• "Subject Q: Little, if any, inner speech. He is, according to his own statement, predominantly visual. Says he gets things by memorizing how they look in the book. Said he had difficulty getting the reading given to him because he could not read it over once or twice more." After that I would remember just how it looks." Is apparently semi-eidetic."
• "A friend with a semi-eidetic memory remembers seeing an article in Neural Computation about the role of noise in neural function but doesn't remember the title or authors. The journal doesn't seem to be listed in Current Contents and I can't find anything about it on CARL."
• "He continued to be tolerated because Karu and Laudsepp managed to get some use out of him, but Ullo felt instinctively that as soon as they managed to find some semi-eidetic fool like himself with a prodigious memory, he would be out on his ear."
• "Image of white flame traced against rose-red field (the "overblown scarlet flowers" of this "chamber"'s wallpaper [P221-22; Gottfried 2002, 70]) then fades into its semi-eidetic reversed-color after-image: the flame continues burning-it is still ardens, "ardent," but now rose-colored."
• "A.S. Byatt, one of the subjects of our volume, primarily a writer of fiction, and a former full-time academic and literature specialist, admits to a semi-eidetic mind and incorporates in her novels discussion of scientific research on the mind and eidetic phenomena and the relations between visual and conceptual memory and analytical thought;"
• "However, after his analysis of "The Reality of Daily Life" in "On Multiple Realities," when Schutz (1962b, 230) discusses the features of a "cognitive style" that a set of experiences shares insofar as they pertain to a finite province of meaning, his account appears to be semi-eidetic."