NEUR 4306 Lecture Notes - American Sign Language, Visual Search, Wayfinding

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Today"s lecture: the objective of this lecture is to move from the original concept of. Previous lecture: we differentiated sts based on, sts encoding, select from sensory memory, retrieve from lts, reduction & elaboration encoding, sts duration, 15-20 secs (if not rehearsed) A. v. l. (acoustic-verbal-linguistic: sts capacity, 7 +/- 2 chunks of information. Further evidence: serial position curve, primacy & recency effects, fits with sts vs lts distinction. Long term memories intact but coulnt learn new information. Turns out this is not entirely true. When you gave them a task to learn and practice. They show evidence of memory and learning how to do that task even though they do not remember actually doing it: something is getting into long term memory. How has amnesic research been extended on. But of course other codes can be used. Visual codes in sts: kroll et al. (1970)