Meaning of semi-eidetic | Babel Free

Definitions

Partly or partially eidetic.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Subject Q: Little, if any, inner speech. He is, according to his own⟳ statement, predominantly visual. Says he gets things by memorizing how they look⟳ in the book. Said he had difficulty getting the reading given to him because he could not read⟳ it over once or twice more." After that I would remember⟳ just how it looks." Is apparently semi-eidetic.”

“A friend with a semi-eidetic memory remembers seeing an article in Neural Computation about the role of noise in neural function but doesn't remember⟳ the title or authors. The journal doesn't seem to be listed in Current Contents and I can't find⟳ anything about it on CARL.”

“He continued to be tolerated because Karu and Laudsepp managed to get⟳ some use⟳ out of him, but Ullo felt instinctively that as soon as they managed to find⟳ some semi-eidetic fool like⟳ himself with a prodigious memory, he would be out on his ear.”

“Image of white flame traced against rose-red field (the "overblown scarlet flowers" of this "chamber"'s wallpaper [P221-22; Gottfried 2002, 70]) then fades into its semi-eidetic reversed-color after-image: the flame continues burning-it is still ardens, "ardent," but now rose-colored.”

“A.S. Byatt, one of the subjects of our volume, primarily a writer of fiction, and a former full-time academic and literature specialist, admits to a semi-eidetic mind⟳ and incorporates in her novels discussion of scientific research⟳ on the mind⟳ and eidetic phenomena and the relations between visual and conceptual memory and analytical thought;”

“However, after his analysis of "The Reality of Daily Life" in "On Multiple Realities," when Schutz (1962b, 230) discusses the features of a "cognitive style" that a set⟳ of experiences shares insofar as they pertain to a finite province of meaning, his account appears to be semi-eidetic.”

“"Semi-eidetic memory? How is that possible? Either you have⟳ an eidetic memory or you don't. You smell⟳ bread and it provokes a memory of bread baking. Are you calling that 'semi-eidetic memory'?"”

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