Sensory register
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- Created on: 02-05-19 09:15
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- Sensory register
- Coding
- Olfactory store for smell
- Echoic store for auditory
- Iconic store for visual
- Haptic store for tactile
- Gustatory store for taste
- Crowder (1993) SR only retains info in iconic for few ms; echoic for few seconds
- Supports idea of sensory information being coded into different stores
- Capacity
- Sperling (1960) Recall of indicated row of letters was high; suggests all information was there
- Suggests capacity is quite large, especially iconic store
- Very large, information is unprocessed, highly detailed and ever-changing
- Sperling (1960) Recall of indicated row of letters was high; suggests all information was there
- Duration
- Different types of information in each store decaying at different rates
- Walsh and Thompson (1978) Iconic has duration of 500ms; decreases as get older
- Suggests duration is limited and dependent on age
- Coding
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