In The Sheep Detectives , Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can’t forget anything. He joins a long line of fictional characters with some version of photographic memory — a strikingly useful skill, or at least a key plot device. Sherlock Holmes uses perfect recall to solve crimes (as long as, in the case of the BBC television series, it’s in his mind palace). And medical student Joy Kwon’s ability comes to the rescue in The Pitt , remembering patient room numbers, symptoms and treatments after the ER loses access to electronic medical records.
But our brains don’t really work that way.
We summarize the week’s scientific…
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