I found a study conducted in 1976 to investigate the relationship between eidetic memory and age. Reid’s character sparked my interest and I decided to research some studies conducted to find out more information on eidetic memory. Individuals with eidetic memory seem to have a visuo-spatial scratchpad with a larger capacity for retaining information.Īlthough many people can have better retention by a few seconds, eidetic memory is thought to be impossible, making Reid’s ability exaggerated and quite fictional. The visuo-spatial scratchpad is responsible for the storage and manipulation of visual and spatial stimuli. Baddeley’s memory model proposes a subsystem under the central executive function of memory called the visuo-spatial scratchpad.
Most people are only able to retain mental images in their working memory for short periods of time and are often forgotten after a few seconds go by. To get an idea of how well your brain makes use of eidetic memory, look at an object and close your eyes, and see how long you can still see the object in your mind’s eye (). For most people, the image lasts mere seconds or less than one second. Eidetic memory is the ability to see an object soon after you look away. Reid is an extremely important asset to the team for many of his impressive mental abilities, especially his eidetic memory for visual stimuli. He uses his amazing cognitive abilities to piece together information needed to find and apprehend perpetrators, often long before any of the other agents. Agent Reid is extremely intelligent, with an IQ of 187, the ability to read 20,00 words per minute, and is said to have perfect eidetic memory. One of my favorite characters on the show is agent Spencer Reid, played by Matthew Gray Gubler. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. The show follows a group of FBI agents in the Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia. I’ve been watching a lot of Netflix these days, and one show I’m currently obsessed with is Criminal Minds.
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