PSY 3377 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Colin Cherry, Sensory Memory, Change Detection
3 Mar 2016
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Meaning of representation in animal memory previous experience allows that experience to affect later behaviour to decrease a representational system, one must specify: the domain/range of structure control/set of features encoded representation of corresponding features. Medium of representation physical installment dynamics how system changes w time domain, preserved features and codes. This finding provides compelling evidence that, as the trial progressed, pigeons recoded from remembering locations chosen to remembering locations not yet chosen. E. g. interested in estimating difficulty of various manoeuvres while driving. Reacting to an event deduced thru cognitive effort needed to accomplish main task: attention seen as limited resource, if you need a lot you are less likely to efficiently cope w the task requirements cognitive/mental load. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations. Some stimuli are processed others are ignored.
