PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clive Wearing, Mental Rotation, Frontal Lobe
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In other words, we cannot damage a sample of patients in the same spot to nd outcomes. In addition, the ltm and stm can in uence each other: brought up the idea that we have a conscious control over our memories and what ends up in our memories. The briefest memory systems and based on environmental stimuli (direct sensory) Through ocular: sensory memory of visual and auditory will be mostly studied because they are the easiest to measure empirically. Iconic memory: is based on visual stimulus captured at the retinas that persists beyond the stimulus. Icon: the longer-lasting mental representation is called the icon. Icon outlasts the stimulation: so after there is no visual representation, we still see it, our mental representations are never the exact same as the image, researchers wanted to know how much and how long. Whole / partial report: george sperling wondered if more information is represented in iconic memory than we can report.
