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The Detailed Texture of Eidetic Images

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Random dot stereograms are used to test the clarity and duration of eidetic images.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Laboratory of Psychophysics, Harvard University,

    C. F. STROMEYER III

  2. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    J. PSOTKA

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STROMEYER, C., PSOTKA, J. The Detailed Texture of Eidetic Images. Nature 225, 346–349 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225346a0

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