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4 pages in length. The transitional process between stimuli to long-term memory involves three distinct components: encoding, storage and retrieval. At the moment sensory perception occurs (encoding), the memory sets to work keeping that information in its bank (storage) for later use (retrieval). The relative simplicity of this undertaking fails to emphasize the conscious aspects that must be happening simultaneously in order for this sensory information to leave the short-term memory and become embedded in the long-term. Four elements of control determine if and how much stimuli make that transfer: attention, rehearsal, encoding and retrieval. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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for later use (retrieval). The relative simplicity of this undertaking fails to emphasize the conscious aspects that must be happening simultaneously in order for this sensory information to leave
the short-term memory and become embedded in the long-term. Four elements of control determine if and how much stimuli make that transfer: attention, rehearsal, encoding and retrieval (Ferguson, 2004).
Sensory Memory has a large capacity, very short duration, allows quick/online commerce with environment [and] lasts no more than 2 seconds....Sensory memory traces fade fairly rapidly. We
simply lose the information UNLESS we do something further with it. What must we do? We must ATTEND to the information. Many so-called memory problems are thus
attention failures. Attention is often very selective (Ferguson, 2004). Winkler and Cowan (2005) illustrate how certain auditory cues elicit memory recall
more expediently than others, which serves to indicate that variations of sound - such as with human voice recognition - is a critical component of encoding, storage and recall capabilities.
It has long been surmised by virtue of scientific research that people tend to lose sensory information within seconds of absorbing it, rendering subsequent recall a tentative proposition.
However, auditory cues have been shown to remain with a person for longer periods of time than other sensory information, typically thirty seconds. These findings provide insight as to
why people often recognize the sound of someones voice - even from years past - yet not identify the individual by sight or other sensory information. Results obtained with
this paradigm suggest that the brain stores features of individual sounds embedded within representations of acoustic regularities that have been detected for the sound patterns and sequences in which the
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