Subject: Yes and no..
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Posted on: 2014-01-02 01:11:00 UTC

In the original canon they come from, neuralyzers work on anybody with the usual human eyes, or something similar. Insectile eyes apparently don't transmit the neuralyzer flash to the brain.

My guess is that somebody with a photographic memory would be affected like anyone else, but they would probably be able to detect that something had been changed. The quality of replaced memories might be more vague than they are used to; or they might remember a "time skip", a gap in memories where the neuralyzer erased them.

Photographic memory is a strange enough concept in real life. Having an extremely good memory is rare, but useful; being actually unable to forget is almost a handicap. Fictional versions of photographic memory are often in-between those two concepts--someone with such a good memory that they could memorize a page of text with a five-second glance, but not so overwhelming that they are distracted by thoughts of what they had for breakfast seven years ago.

To determine how the neuralyzer affects someone with a very good memory, or someone with a photographic memory, or someone who is totally unable to forget any experiences they have had, you would probably have to determine why that person has an unusual memory system to begin with, and how it works differently from the usual sort, and work from there.

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