P3D Eidetikers

[wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Wier)]

As I'm currently running thru boxes of stuff as a result of my move
to Montana, I ran across kind of an interesting article from the November,
1970 Psychology Today magazine (not a typo on that date).

It has to do with research on "photographic memory", where a few people
can actually visualize an image and direct their attention to specifc
areas and see detail unnoticed at the time or original viewing.

There was some controversy as to whether eidetikers (as they are called)
could really effectively "project" an image into space and "read" it, or
if they just had really good visual memories of a more traditional
sort.

An experiment was designed where test subjects were shown two sections
of a 10,000 dot SIRDS image (each eye separately, separated by 24 hours). 
One of the test subjects was able to "project" the images together and
bring up the 3-D image (a floating square above the surface), whereas it
had not been seen with the individual image(s).

Pretty remarkable, eh? I was also surprised because I didn't think
that SIRDS were really well known before the mid 80's or so.

There were additional tests run using color perception via the "Land"
filter process, and so forth. The article said that tests of young
children showed many had this capability, but very few adults. It would
be interesting if the photo-3d population were statistically significantly
different in this regard...

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