EDU 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sensory Memory, Mnemonic, Thalamus
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Our brains take in a vast amount of sensory information each second all of it (except smell) is processed through the thalamus. Thalamus decides what is important to attend to or ignore & shifts info to regions of cortex for conscious perception. The fundamental purpose of sensory memory is give the brains cognitive areas time to choose which information is important & worthy of attention. Stores incoming sensory info in detail for an instant not under conscious control: so, we can"t actively try to remember through our senses instead, our senses tell our brain what needs our attention.
