PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - George Sperling, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
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Clive weaving: no long-term memory (lack of conscious memory) due to damage to the hippocampus, caused by syphilis and herpes. He still had unconscious memory was able to perfectly play piano. A sensory trace" of the stimulus remains after the stimulus is gone = sensory memory it is very short lived. If people can get 2+ items in any row, no matter which row is queued, this means they have 7. 5 items in their head. 5. 5 items) fade away: this is a type of iconic memory. Seems to last about 3 seconds: the what" effect: someone says something that we don"t pay attention to but we can recall what they said, even if we didn"t really listen to it. Short term" memory is a bit of a misnomer; working" memory is more appropriate. It allows us to work over memory for a short time.
