一男子“過目不忘”，盜用1300個信用卡號碼

一男子“過目不忘”，盜用1300個信用卡號碼

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.

東京一名收銀員涉嫌竊取1300名顧客的信用卡信息。根據(jù)警方的說法，他只是用他的大腦來獲取信息。

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歲的谷口健二(yusuke taniguchi)周四被捕，警方說，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)他在3月份利用被盜信息購買了價值約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.

知情人士告訴新聞媒體，谷口健二擁有“過目不忘”的能力。警方表示，這名兼職收銀員在顧客購買商品的短時間內(nèi)記下了顧客的信用卡信息。

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

警方說，他記下所有的細(xì)節(jié)，然后寫下這些信息，用這些信息在網(wǎng)上購物。

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

但科學(xué)并不能真正支持他過目不忘的說法。

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.

據(jù)紐約聯(lián)合大學(xué)的心理學(xué)教授丹尼爾·伯恩斯說，科學(xué)家們還沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)的證據(jù)，但是有一些記憶力非常好的人能夠回憶起驚人的細(xì)節(jié)信息——一種清晰的記憶。

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.

他說，大多數(shù)人把清晰的記憶和過目不忘的記憶混為一談，但研究記憶的科學(xué)家在這兩者之間劃了一條界線。一個有清晰記憶的人能夠在看過一幅圖片后回憶起它的細(xì)節(jié)，并且能夠記住這幅圖片長達(dá)四分鐘。

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.

伯恩斯說，盡管有許多知覺上的相似之處，但這幅清晰的圖像并不完全相同。此外，根據(jù)研究，清晰記憶最常見于6至12歲的兒童，而在成人中幾乎沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)。