Thomas' forelæsning Flashcards
What classical theories are there of attention and who made them?
1) Broadbent and the Filter Theory in 1958
2) Treisman and the Attenuation theory in 1960
3) Deutch & Deutch and the late selection theory in 1963
Which of the classical attention theories are late selection theories?
The late selection theory by Deutch and Deutch in 1963
Which of the classical attention theories are early selection theories?
Filter theory by broadband in 1958; Attenuation theory by Treisman in 1960
Who documented the excistence of iconic memory?
Sperling
What is the serial position effect?
the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.
What is the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst called?
The serial position effect
What is the serial position effect sometimes thought to be evidence for?
For the standard model of memory (Powerpoint)
Who questiones the serial neture of the serial position effect?
Baddeley 2004
What is patient HM thougth to be evidence for
Two kinds of memorystores, short term memory and long term. Because he could not make new memories, but could remember old stuff, from before injury. Due to removal of parts of hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex and entorhinal cortex. (Also provides evidance for memory not being stored in hippocampus, even though it might be formed).
What is patient HM evidence against?
standard memory model: because his short term memory was affected, but not his LTM (det her forstår jeg ikke. Der kunne vel godt være en overgang fra STM til LTM, men når det så først er havnet i LTM er STM ligegyldig. Og han er jo netop heller ikke i stand til at danne nye minder?? Har jeg misforstået standardmodellen ?)
Who suggests an alternative version of memory, where STM can be seen as an active representations of LTM? Why do you (Freja) like that approach?
Fuster (2006). Because it can account for Amnesia studies such as HM. Suggests, maybe, that his Amnesia is not due to either deficits on STM or LTM, but on the connection between them? Or only the connection from STM –> LTM, not the other way around.
What is Morphology?
a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
What do you call the branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
morphology
What did Luck and Vogels study from 1997 provide evidence for?
That we dont store features, but conjunctions of features in working memory.
What do Luck and Vogel (1997) propose from the findings that we percieve conjunctions of features instead of single features, and that there does not seem to be an effect of the amount of features conjunct in an object on the working memory performance?
They propose that the temporally correlated firing patterns work as a mechanism for combining features in an object in memory. This is consistent with the findings that more than four objects gives a decrease in performance (because it increases the likelyhood that incidental correlated firing patterns happens), and that an increase of features in an object, doesn’t influence this (because more features joining the same pattern doesn’t increase the chance of incidental correlations).
