PSY260H1 Lecture Notes - Electrophysiology, Eye Tracking, Blood Vessel
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Transient memories: nonpermanent memories that last for. Short answers qs: be descriptive! seconds or minutes, and include both sensory memory and short term memory. 2 types: sensory memories, short-term memories. Sensory memory: brief transient sensations of what has just been perceived when someone sees, hears, or tastes something. Visual sensory memory: the visual system"s temporary storage site for information perceived visually. Iconic memory: rapidly decaying visual sensory memories that last for less than a second but are critical for recognizing and processing information that is presented only briefly. It is necessary for recognizing and processing briefly presented information. Iconic memory exists for other sensory modalities, including touch, smell and hearing. Each of these sensory iconic memories ( tactile, olfactory, visual, etc) acts like a buffer for information. Short term memory: info that is encoded & can be immediately recalled usually 7 2 items. So new info must stop first in stm before it"s tranfered to ltm.
