一男子“过目不忘”，盗用1300个信用卡号码

A Tokyo-based cashier allegedly stole credit card information from 1,300 customers. According to police, he used only his brain to take the information.

东京一名收银员涉嫌窃取1300名顾客的信用卡信息。根据警方的说法，他只是用他的大脑来获取信息。

Yusuke Taniguchi, 34, was arrested Thursday when police said they discovered he used the stolen information to purchase bags worth an estimated US$2,600 in March, according to CNN.

34岁的谷口健二(yusuke taniguchi)周四被捕，警方说，他们发现他在3月份利用被盗信息购买了价值约2600美元的包。

People close to the investigation have told news media that Taniguchi has a "photographic memory". Police say the part-time cashier retained customer credit card information in the short amount of time it took for them to purchase their goods, according to SoraNews24.

知情人士告诉新闻媒体，谷口健二拥有“过目不忘”的能力。警方表示，这名兼职收银员在顾客购买商品的短时间内记下了顾客的信用卡信息。

until he was able to write down the information, which he would later use to shop online, police said.

警方说，他记下所有的细节，然后写下这些信息，用这些信息在网上购物。

But science doesn't really back the claims of his photographic memory.

但科学并不能真正支持他过目不忘的说法。

Scientists have not found evidence of photographic memories, but there are people with very good memories who can recall information in astounding detail - an eidetic memory - according to Daniel Burns, a professor of psychology at Union College in New York.

据纽约联合大学的心理学教授丹尼尔·伯恩斯说，科学家们还没有发现的证据，但是有一些记忆力非常好的人能够回忆起惊人的细节信息——一种清晰的记忆。

Most people conflate having an eidetic memory with a photographic memory, but scientists who study memory draw a hard line between the two, he said. A person with an eidetic memory is able to recall an image in great detail after seeing it once, with the ability to remember the image up to four minutes.

他说，大多数人把清晰的记忆和过目不忘的记忆混为一谈，但研究记忆的科学家在这两者之间划了一条界线。一个有清晰记忆的人能够在看过一幅图片后回忆起它的细节，并且能够记住这幅图片长达四分钟。

But the eidetic image is not identical even though it has many perceptual similarities, according to Burns. Furthermore, eidetic memory is most commonly found in children between the ages of 6 and 12, and it's hardly ever found in adults, according to research.

伯恩斯说，尽管有许多知觉上的相似之处，但这幅清晰的图像并不完全相同。此外，根据研究，清晰记忆最常见于6至12岁的儿童，而在成人中几乎没有发现。