PSYCH 240 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 Notes
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Visuospatial processing: issues (a) is visual memory special? (b) theories of visual memory and visual imagery, special status of visual information. Quantity of info, extraordinary subjects, picture memory, exceptions: hypothesis: dual code, visual imagery. Visualize yourself walking through the room: did george washington have a beard, rotate uppercase n 90 degrees clockwise, is that another letter. Yes (it"s z: you can have imagery for other senses (imaging golf swing, taste, feel, etc. ) Everyday example of extraordinary image: the conductor toscanini. Has a phenomenal memory: the tale of the panicky bassoonist. Scanned sheet music for whole concert and saw that the note does not appear once in any. Mind of a mnemonist (memory expert) of the songs throughout the concert: studied by russian psychologist luria, called him s solomon shereshevskii, had an extraordinary memory. Newspaper reporter, never took notes: could remember long lists and passages with ease.
