Lernmaterialien für M09 an der FernUni Schweiz/UniDistance

brightness masking

only works, if stimulus and mask presented on the same eye.

pattern masking

similar feature to the target Influences a later stage of visual processing

A term applied to the retention of small amounts of material over periods of a few seconds.

A system or systems assumed to underpin the capacity to store information over long periods of time.

Memory that is open to intentional retrieval, whether based on recollecting personal events (episodic memory) or facts (semantic memory).

Retrieval of information from long-term memory through performance rather than explicit conscious recall or recognition.

A system that is assumed to store accumulative knowledge of the world.

remembering to do things

When print and pictorial information are contrasted in an explicit verbal recall task, retention favours pictures.

A system that is assumed to underpin the capacity to remember specific events.

Die Antwort ist, dass seine Funktion wahrscheinlich indirekt ist und Teil des Prozesses der Wahrnehmung der Welt ist. Während wir die visuelle Welt scannen, fallen Reize von enormer Komplexität auf unsere Netzhaut, die weitaus mehr Informationen enthalten, als wir verarbeiten und speichern können.

Es ist wahrscheinlich, dass das ikonische Gedächtnis zwei frühe Stadien eines Prozesses darstellt, 

1. in dem Informationen von der Netzhaut abgelesen werden 
2. ein Teil davon dann in einen haltbareren kurzfristigen visuellen Speicher geleitet wird

The process whereby presentation of an item influences the processing of a subsequent item, either making it easier to process (positive priming) or more difficult (negative priming).

A memory system that underpins our capacity to “keep things in mind” when performing complex tasks.

A lot of different theories according the questions they will answer. Focused more on memory than attention