Edward Vogel
Edward Vogel
facts filled happened sorts
We're filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and there's no seeming end to it.
assumed capacity controls gets greater high information mechanism memory neural people until visual
Until now, it's been assumed that people with high capacity visual working memory had greater storage, but actually it's about the bouncer -- a neural mechanism that controls what information gets into awareness.
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What we're able to show is that it's possible the storage space (of all people) is more or less about the same. The difference is not how many things you can hold in (short-term) memory at the same time, but how efficient you are at keeping irrelevant things out.