remembering what is seen Ê visual motor eye-hand coordination
In the context of language, visual memory is the ability to remember forms of letters, sight words, and spelling patterns of phonetically irregular words.
The ability to visually recall learned facts. A child with a poor visual memory will have difficulty remembering reading material that was visually presented to him. The same child, however, might be able to recall the same information that was verbally read to him.
The ability to remember what has been seen, without relying on subvocalization, tactile, or auditory feedback. The act of forming a mental visual image of something seen before or visualized.
The ability to retain information which is presented visually; may be short term memory, such as recalling information presented several seconds before; long term memory, such as recalling information presented more than a minute before; or sequential memory, such as recalling a series of information in proper order.
The ability to hold visual images in memory to be recalled at a later date. Psychologists often separate this area into several discrete sub areas referred to as long term memory, short term memory and working memory.
Visual memory is a part of memory preserving some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience. We are able to place in memory information that resembles objects, places, animals or people in sort of a mental image. Some authors refer to this experience as an “our mind's eye†through which we can retrieve from our memory a mental image of the original object, place, animal or person.