Author: David M. Del CastilloPublisher:
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Category : Memory
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Interference Effects in Recognition Memory for Visual Forms
Author: David M. Del CastilloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Memory
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Effects of Labels on Recognition Memory for Ambiguous Visual Forms
Author: Marvin Charles McCallumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Memory
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Interference Effects in Recognition
Author: Marc Alan HamovitchPublisher:
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Category : Learning, Psychology of
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Output interference and testing effects in recognition memory
Author: Sean A. SpanglerVerbalising Visual Memories
Author: Toby J. Lloyd-JonesPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This special issue, Verbalising Visual Memories, comprises research on: (a) verbal interference and facilitation in face and person processing; (b) similarities and differences between effects of verbalisation and processing in the Navon task (Navon, 1977); and (c) effects of verbalisation in visual imagery and object memory. It is clear that verbal processes influence the encoding, storage and retrieval of visual information. Moreover, different forms of verbal interference and facilitation are likely to be due to different mechanisms in different contexts. The state-of-the-art is that we are just beginning to understand the rich complexity of the problem.
Working Memory Capacity
Author: Nelson CowanPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317232380
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold temporarily in an especially accessible form for use in the completion of almost any challenging cognitive task. This groundbreaking book explains the evidence supporting Cowan's theoretical proposal about working memory capacity, and compares it to competing perspectives. Cognitive psychologists profoundly disagree on how working memory is limited: whether by the number of units that can be retained (and, if so, what kind of units and how many), the types of interfering material, the time that has elapsed, some combination of these mechanisms, or none of them. The book assesses these hypotheses and examines explanations of why capacity limits occur, including vivid biological, cognitive, and evolutionary accounts. The book concludes with a discussion of the practical importance of capacity limits in daily life. This 10th anniversary Classic Edition will continue to be accessible to a wide range of readers and serve as an invaluable reference for all memory researchers.
Attributes of Memory (Psychology Revivals)
Author: Peter HerriotPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135984530
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
First published in 1974, Attributes of Memory rejected the prevalent stress on the structure of memory. It suggests that the view of memory as a sequence of stores through which information passes is mistaken. Instead, the author emphasizes the coding process of memory by which the nominal stimulus, the stimulus as presented, is transformed into the functional stimulus, the stimulus as coded. Dr Herriot proposes that there are many different forms of coding, and that efficiency of recall or recognition performance is a function of the nature of coding employed. He suggests that the subject’s linguistic system is the most frequently employed linguistic device; that is, that the underlying attributes and rules of language are used automatically when material is verbal. Since the basic function of language is to communicate meaning, those forms of coding which are meaningful in nature are most effective in memory. The book cites a great deal of experimental evidence, including many studies of the time. As well as stating a point of view, it should be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students as a review of the early literature, read in its historical context.
Spatial and Temporal Factors Affecting Human Visual Recognition Memory
Author: Daniel RobertsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The current thesis investigated the effects of a variety of spatial and temporal factors on visual recognition memory in human adults. Continuous recognition experiments investigated the effect of lag (the number of items intervening between study and test) on recognition of a variety of stimulus sets (common objects, face-like stimuli, fractals, trigrams), and determined that recognition of common objects was superior to that of other stimulus types. This advantage was largely eradicated when common objects of only one class (birds) were tested. Continuous recognition confounds the number of intervening items with the time elapsed between study and test presentations of stimuli. These factors were separated in an experiment comparing recognition performance at different rates of presentation. D-prime scores were affected solely by the number of intervening items, suggesting an interference-based explanation for the effect of lag. The role of interference was investigated further in a subsequent experiment examining the effect of interitem similarity on recognition. A higher level of global similarity amongst stimuli was associated with a lower sensitivity of recognition. Spatial separation between study and test was studied using same/different recognition of face-like stimuli, and spatial shifts between study and test locations. An initial study found a recognition advantage for stimuli that were studied and tested in the same peripheral location. However, the introduction of eye-tracking apparatus to verify fixation resulted in the eradication of this effect, suggesting that it was an artefact of uncontrolled fixation. Translation of both face-like and fractal stimuli between areas of different eccentricity, with different spatial acuities, did decrease recognition sensitivity, suggesting a partial positional specificity of visual memory. These phenomena were unaffected by 180 degree rotation. When interfering stimuli were introduced between study and test trials, translation invariance at a constant eccentricity broke down.
A Study of Proactive Interference in Recognition Memory
Author: Randy.* SollenbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Memory for Odors
Author: Frank R. SchabPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317783468
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The power of odors to unlock human memory is celebrated in literature and anecdote, but poorly documented by science. Odors -- perhaps more than other stimuli -- are widely believed to evoke vivid and complex past experiences easily. Yet in contrast to the frequency with which odors are thought to evoke memories of the past, scientific evidence is thus far scant. For years, voluminous data have been collected on odor sensitivity, whereas relatively few studies exist on memory for odors per se. Moreover, the memory data that do exist are thus far only poorly integrated with the most modern attitudes on human memory. The major goal of this volume is to point the way toward a better state of affairs, one in which the study of odor memory is legitimatized as a proper specialization and is informed by the most promising ideas in the mainstream study of memory. This volume explores three tendencies in modern memory theory that have not yet sufficiently penetrated the odor-memory work: memory coding, memory and knowledge, and implicit and explicit memory.