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Many photographic memory books teach you how to improve your memory skills utilizing various techniques. Photographic memory is often confused with something called “eidetic memory.” With this type of memory, a person can study a picture for about 30 seconds and retain the visual image even when the picture itself is no longer there. Thus far, children have been found to have eidetic memory, but adults have not been found to have the skill in the same capacity.

In most photographic memory books the techniques used are to help people develop memory skills, not through capturing a mental picture of what they see, but by learning certain tricks to make recalling the information possible. Whether they are looking at a picture, words of text or music, the ability to store that information into their memory is often thought of having a photographic memory.

There are a number of ways to train your memory to be able to do this. In fact, if you know the alphabet song you already have a fine example of one of the techniques used to help develop memory. It is actually an example of the most fundamental techniques the use of repetition and association.