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THE PROCESS OF MEMORY Receiving SHORT - TERM MEMORY Immediate 1 Sensory input is received in specialized parts of the cortex 2 and held for frac- tions of a second . MILLISECONDS ▻ Working memory 3 The frontal cortex gets that infor ...
THE PROCESS OF MEMORY Receiving SHORT - TERM MEMORY Immediate 1 Sensory input is received in specialized parts of the cortex 2 and held for frac- tions of a second . MILLISECONDS ▻ Working memory 3 The frontal cortex gets that infor ...
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... memory palace , memories can be made virtu- ally indelible . Peter of Ravenna , a noted Italian jurist and author of a renowned memory textbook of the 15th century , was said to have used the loci method to memorize the Bible , the ...
... memory palace , memories can be made virtu- ally indelible . Peter of Ravenna , a noted Italian jurist and author of a renowned memory textbook of the 15th century , was said to have used the loci method to memorize the Bible , the ...
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... memories fail us in the specific ways they do . If everything we looked at , smelled , heard , or thought about was immediately filed away in the enormous database that is our long - term memory , we'd be drowning in irrelevant ...
... memories fail us in the specific ways they do . If everything we looked at , smelled , heard , or thought about was immediately filed away in the enormous database that is our long - term memory , we'd be drowning in irrelevant ...
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