Andra Botean

How is knowledge being represented in our brains?

Every verbal or visual information receive is stored through its meaning. Perceptual details get lost after 10 minutes.

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Today we will have a closer look upon how the long-term memory works. There are simultaneously two memory systems activated:

• Procedural vs. Declarative memory
• Semantical vs. Episodical memory

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The question to ask is: How do we manage to transfer information from the ultra-short-term memory into the long-term memory? Or better said, how do we learn?

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This post will describe the overall structure of our memory system. Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968) divide the architecture of memory into three types:

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The last post was about selective attention, which means criteria on which we select information channels to bundle our attention on a certain item.

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The last three articles were all about perception, now we will switch to another cognitive ability named attention. 

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