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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #4654 Short Memory
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There have been numerous cases of people claiming to possess a photographic memory. For example, Akira Haraguchi recited from memory the first 83,431 decimal places of pi, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. An incredible achievement, I agree, but other examples of so-called photographic memory such as that of Elizabeth Stromeyer, are more dubious. She claimed that she could recall poetry written in a language that she did not understand years after she had first seen the poem. Unlike in the first case, the methods and procedures that were used to test Stromeyer could be considered questionable, and the fact that she never repeated the experiment makes me doubt it even further.

What is the speaker's opinion about the subject of photographic memory?

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