Visual Memory

Visual Memory

People who have problems with

Visual Memory,

Visual Recognition Memory,

Visual Recall Memory,

Short Term Visual Memory,

Long Term Visual Memory and/or

Visual Retrieval.

What is Visual Memory

Visual Memory relates to the ability to remember what one sees. These individuals have difficulty recalling visual images immediately or after a long period of time. Inefficiency of this sort is often difficult to identify informally. Frequent referring back to a visual challenge may never be noticed. When assessing whether or not a problem with visual memory exists, one must be sure the visual challenge was initially perceived accurately and then misremembered. The fact that a student takes longer at visual tasks may be all that shows to the casual observer.

Identifying Visual Memory

Be cautious about testing done to determine whether or not a visual memory problem exists. Most testing instruments used to assess visual memory require the subject to look at shapes and draw them from memory. Testing must be done first to ensure visual perception is accurate. It would be very difficult to remember a visual stimulus that was not perceived clearly in the first place. One would provide a wrong shape if one perceived it inaccurately in the beginning. One might be remembering perfectly well an inaccurately perceived stimulus.

Since many Learning Disabled students have significant difficulty with fine motor ability and with visual motor integration (integrating visual channel and motor channel functions, see the section on Dysgraphia), a poor performance on such tests for visual memory may be caused by inefficiency in perception of the shapes (because of visual reception) or in production of the shapes (because of motor or visual motor distress), not in how they were remembered.

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