Visual Memory Decay Is Deterministic
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Visual memory decay is deterministic.
After observers see an object or pattern, their visual memory of what they have seen decays slowly over time. Nearly all current theories of vision assume that decay of short-term memory occurs because visual representations are progressively and randomly corrupted as time passes. We tested this assumption using psychophysical noise-masking methods, and we found that visual memory decays in a c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Science
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0956-7976
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01612.x