CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Long-Term Memory, Basal Ganglia, Flash Memory
14 Dec 2018
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Mysteries of the mind cgsc1001 fall 2017. September 21, 2017 learning, memory, and representation. Representations are stored in memory: animal brain, long term memory, short term memory, software databases, symbols, paper, brain, disk, environmental manipulation. Human memory of fact and perceptions (not skills: sensory memory sensory memory is like a scratch pad (for vision), or a bit of recording tape (for hearing), that can be overwritten with new things. It is re-written every few seconds by new perceptions: short term memory a temporary store. Some things from it end up becoming long term memories: long term memory probably stored here forever, though we might have trouble with retrieval. Working memory is baddeley"s refined theory of short term memory. The working memory for facts is commonly thought to have 5-9 slots, one for each chunk. A chunk is a bit of working memory.
