PSYC 100 Lecture : Attention_and_Memory.doc

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H. m. (henry molaison) suffered from severe epilepsy. Originated in the temporal lobes > surgery, lost the ability to form new long term memory-world stopped sept 1953. Memory: the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain useable skills and knowledge, allowing organisms to benefit from experience, often incomplete biased, distorted: how does attention determine what is remembered many tasks, performance suffers multitasking". Look, listen = commands that direct attention attention is limited, when divided among too: visual attention is selective and serial. Primitive features, such as color, shape, orientation, and movement, within an environment. Tresiman has proposed that separate systems analyze objects" different visual features. Color, motion, orientation, and size features that pop out despite # of distracters. Searching for two features is serial (need to look at stimuli one at a time), and effortful (takes longer and requires more attention)

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