) presented participants with grids of letters and numbers, similar to those used by Sperling in the 1960s. However, the task was different: participants were asked to quickly identify the letter among three numbers and report its color. For example, in the grids below, the answer to the first grid should be"orange," and the answer to the second grid should be"red." Participants were quite accurate and quick at this task.
One might predict that this should be an easy question to answer. After all, the participant had just identified which of the four symbols was a letter and reported its color correctly. Yet, as their data show, only 35 percent of the participants were able to recall the letter correctly, even though they had just seen it a second earlier., suggesting that it reflects a failure of memory consolidation. In other words, participants simply did not encode the memory of the letter into memory.
These results are, in some ways, even more surprising than Sperling's original 1960 findings. It makes sense that when we are presented with a lot of information , we can only hold so much of it in memory before it fades. But the results of Chen and Wyble showed that this type of instant memory loss could happen even if we are paying attention to the specific item in question. The key question is whether the attribute of the item is important for the task at hand.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: RollingStone - 🏆 483. / 51 Read more »
Source: POPSUGAR Fitness - 🏆 401. / 53 Read more »