Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Eidetic memory" in English language version.
The term photographic memory is more often used to describe eidetic imagery.
...we often hear about people with 'photographic memories' that enable them to quickly memorise all the fine details of a complicated picture or a page of text in a few seconds. So far as I can tell, all of these tales are unfounded myths, and only professional magicians or charlatans can produce such demonstrations.
