The psychologist called it a visual spatial learning style but I am not sure that quite explains what is going on in the brain. She does the same at the eye doctor memorizes the chart so he has to keep changing them. When we had her tested there was a particular section on the test that they said she had memorized before she got to the second line. (She goes to a special program for highly gifted.) I was tucking her in the other night and she recited lines and lines of Macbeth. Currently my daughter is reading Macbeth in class. If she does she doesn't talk about it now. My daughter use to do this peculiar thing of remembering the clothes someone wore the first time she met them. ![]() (For more on Ainan Celeste Cawley, six, a scientific child prodigy, and his gifted brothers, go to: We had our explanation as to why Ainan wasn't interested in the museum, the second time around: he knew it already - and none but one was new. More unusual still is to hold that memory for years - and to be able to comment on its content years later. I have met enough children to know that memorizing the contents of a museum at one glance is spectacularly unusual. Whatever such a memory is called, we were left somewhat stunned at this evidence of visual memory. What is a photographic memory? Does Ainan have one? Whether or not he does, it is certain that he is able to recall a large number of random images, and their positions, two years later - and to know the content that they had had. Not only this, but he had noticed the one change - and had been able to say what the original painting had been about. Every painting was the same, in the same position - except for one, which had, unaccountably, been exchanged for another.Īinan had remembered the position and content of an entire museum full of art, which he had seen but once, in a cursory fashion two years before. My wife and I looked at each other, and realized the truth - only one painting in these galleries was different to the ones he had seen on his first visit. ![]() Finally we came to one painting, at the edge of a partition, jutting out into the body of a hall.Īinan stopped in his running, suddenly and said: "That one used to be about books. ![]() Ainan and Fintan ran around treating the art museum as a playground. However, he appeared to have no interest in the paintings at all. It had been about two years since our previous visit to the museum, and we thought that Ainan would, therefore, enjoy seeing the art museum again. We began a detailed tour of the paintings, going from one to another, trying to see them all. Recently, about a couple of months ago (I will find the exact date and upload it), we took Ainan Celeste Cawley, 6, and his two brothers, Fintan Nadym Cawley, 3, and Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley, then a few months, to the Singapore Art Museum. We all know people who seem to show "good" memory, but how good can memory be? Memory is one of the key attributes of high intellectual performance: without it, there is nothing to be thought about it.
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