PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Free Recall, Posterior Parietal Cortex, Alternative Hypothesis
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21st september 2020: short term memory (atkinson and shiffrin, 1985, modal model- stm is present. Stimuli first goes to sensory register but not all the information gets processed further to ltm. Only the memory that is rehearsed will be passed on to ltm: free recall task- participants are given a list of words and after that they have to recall the words: People were able to remember 7 digits but after that had trouble remembering it: chase and ericsson (1981, way to increase the capacity. English: tested stm memory of english and welsh bilinguals with english digit and welsh, welsh number take longer to articulate hence, should be harder to remember, stm performance was worse for. 2: visuospatial buffer, stores limited amount of visuospatial information for a short period of time, visual information is registered into the sensory registry and the perceptual part of the brain.
