Tag: Visual Attention

When we have to learn something new, that new information has to get through what you might think of as “gates”: first it has to be perceived, then pass into working (or short-term) memory, and then finally into long-term memory. Moving information from working to long-term memory usually requires rehearsal, like repeating someone’s name to yourself over and over again until you have it memorized. This experiment by Sahan and colleagues shows that the same is true of visual information and answers the question: how exactly do we rehearse visual information? Their answer: we rehearse visual information with help from our eyes!

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