HIGH-FIDELITY PERCEPTUAL LONG-TERM-MEMORY

被引:33
作者
MAGNUSSEN, S
DYRNES, S
机构
[1] Vision Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo
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10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00638.x
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Visual long-term memory for spatial information was assessed by measuring discrimination thresholds for the spatial frequency of sinusoidal gratings in a delayed discrimination task, with various time intervals separating test and reference stimuli. The results demonstrate perfect preservation of information across 1-s to 50-hr retention intervals in the sense that the spatial frequency discrimination thresholds remained at the level defined by the spatial resolution of the sensory analysis. This high-fidelity spatial long-term memory may represent an elementary memory mechanism for precategorical storage of visual features.
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