Question: how come some people have photographic memory????

Jen Todd Jones answered on 12 Mar 2013:

Hi khp

Generally we don’t think about people having photographic memory, really it’s just that some people are better at remembering things than others. Some people are pretty good at remembering situations or places or things they’ve seen, while others might be better at remembering faces, or peoples voices, or really abstract ideas like mathematical equations. Photographic memory is just one kind of good memory, but it’s a good way of describing some people who are good at remembering things they’ve seen.

We don’t know why some people are better at this than others naturally, but you can definitely train yourself to be better at it!