Visual

Photographic  Memory:

HOW DO PEOPLE WITH EXCEPTIONAL MEMORIES differ from REGULAR PEOPLE ?

      For one thing, they obviously remember more!

   Most of us use Verbal Strings, -- words in sentences, the days of the week, or the 1-2-3 sequence of numbers.

   People with Photographic Memories;  those individuals who can remember large tables of meaningless numbers after only a few minutes of study, are assumed to remember Visually, that is, they make a photograph-like mental image of the information.   This belief is confirmed when they are capable of repeating those numbers in sequence -- back and forth horizontally, bottom to top -- as is they are actually reading it from the original table. 

      Photographic Memory is strongest in childhood.   There are, however, some people who are able to maintain this type of memory in adulthood.   Most visual memory uses the Right Hemisphere of the brain.   Later in life, as our visual perception of language through the medium of reading develops, visual information is then presumably channeled into the already developed language regions of the dominant Left Hemispheric Temporal lobe.   If one were right hemisphere dominant, visual memory would be the dominant form of memory!   Music is functionally organized within the Right Hemisphere as well.