Visual Memory

Visual memory, one of the types of memory, characterized by the fact that people who possess it more easily remember impressions received through vision; thus, when memorizing, they achieve this more quickly if they read themselves than if someone reads aloud to them, because when conveying what was read, visual images of the text, pages and lines on which it is written arise in their consciousness. Faces or objects that have ever been seen sometimes remain in memory for a lifetime. Research shows that visual memory is better developed in girls than in boys. Some scientists localize visual memory on the outer surface of the occipital lobe, the destruction of which leads to the inability to recognize objects (or so-called mental blindness).