CGSC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cocktail Party, Autobiographical Memory, Hyperthymesia
15 Aug 2016
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Hyperthymesia: possessing and extremely detailed autobiographical memory: can remember all events related to one"s own life. Often have poor recall of arbitrary information: negative consequences. In contrast when we recall information we reconstruct it according to what we are in the present: the purpose of memory is about adapting and looking into the future as much as into the past . When the sequence is only one or two tones long, subjects never make mistakes. Performance deteriorates when presented with six or more tones in a sequence: absolute judgement: Humans are limited in the absolute judgements they can make. Opposed to relative judgement (identifying between two colours which is darker) If given more than 7 categories, performance decreases. Bottleneck information processing: human perceptual systems are information channels with built- in limits. Human memory works better when meaning is applied. Makes it easier to recall (aka chunking)
