Eidetic imagery: longitudinal results in brain-damaged children.
There have only been a few attempts to assess whether eidetic imagery is inversely related to age. A sample of 15 known eidetikers from a previous study, having particular forms of brain damage, were retested after a lapse of 20 months. The hypothesis of the study was that older children are most likely to lose their capacity for seeing eidetic images over a period of 20 months than are younger children. The data confirmed the hypothesis and was interpreted as supporting the theory that eidetic imagery is a developmental process that decreases in importance over the course of a child's development.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D004538:Eidetic Imagery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male