PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mnemonic, Attribute Substitution, Image Scanner
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So far we have discussed images that have been recently seen and are held in working memory. Images seem to be stored in long-term memory in a piecemeal fashion. Link the different details together as you remember. When you imagine these different areas of an image they appear. To form a mental image, you must activate a representation of an image frame and then elaborate on this frame to make the image more detailed. In agreement with this hypothesis, images that have more parts or detail take more time to create. For example, a mental image of four columns of dots takes more time to generate and is more difficult to maintain than a mental image of three rows of dots. Information stored in long-term visual memory is sometimes thought of in terms of image files, which specify what particular objects or shapes look like.
