PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sketchpad, Echoic Memory, Implicit Memory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Christine Millicent Burton

Document Summary

Binding of information stored in different cortical areas. Suddenly remember the correct answer of a test question a day after taking the exam. Visual information -> visual cortex (occipital lobe) -> medial temporal lobe processing: visual information bind to other sensory information from other areas of the cortex (e. g. sound, knowledge) -> these areas are reactivated when retrieving information. Different information is processed by different cortical areas, and the binding of them are processed by medial temporal lobe(especially hippocampus) As a storage unit or structure where information is held. Aristotle: was tablet that can be molded, melted and remolded over time. Filing system of information organized in different ways. The very short-term memory storage of unprocessed sensory. George sperling tried to measure the capacity of visual sensory memory (iconic memory) Using partial-report method with no delay between report and display. A research procedure where subjects are asked to report only a portion of the information presented.