Memory (cont'd)  

Web Links for Unit 1:  Memory

You will get more out of this chapter if you check out these links.

Duration and Capacity of Short Term Memory

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information - George Miller's 1956 paper, originally published in the Psychological Review, 63, 81-97. The online version is part of Classicsin the History of Psychology, an Internet Resource developed by Christopher D. Green at York University, in Toronto http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/ Links Related to the Biological Basis of Memory Brain and Memory: Basic Mechanisms - summarizes some of the research on the biological basis of memory, including Karl Lashley's search for the location of memory http://www.psy.ohio-state.edu/psy312/brain.html

Memory and the Hippocampus - from the Neuroscience for Kids web site, but still great for college students  http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/hippo.html

Memory, Learning, and Emotion:  the Hippocampus - nice page on the role of the hippocampus in memory from Psychoeducation.org  http://www.psycheducation.org/emotion/hippocampus.htm

 Links Related to Accuracy of Memory/False Memories Creating False Memories - article by Elizabeth Loftus, originally published in Scientific American, September 1997, vol 277, #3, pp. 70-75 http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm

Remembering Dangerously - an article by Elizabeth Loftus, originally published in The Skeptical Inquirer (March, 1995), Volume 19, no. 2, p. 20  http://www.csicop.org/si/9503/memory.html

Truth or invention: exploring the repressed memory syndrome - excerpts from a chapter in Elizabeth Loftus' book, 'The Myth of Repressed Memory' This excerpt discusses Loftus' investigation of one of the most famous cases involving recovery of repressed (and apparently false) memories  http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/Cosmo.html

 Links Related to Improving Memory

Online Memory Experiments

Common Cents – a test of memory accuracy for a very familiar object, a penny! from the Exploratorium  http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/common_cents/

Do You Know What a Penny Looks Like? – another version of the experiment above, this one from the NASA Cognition Lab  http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/penny/pennies.html

Short Term Memory: Encoding and Rehearsal – another memory experiment from NASA. This one allows you to compare memory for words, sounds, and pictures   http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/STM/index.html

Serial Position Curve – from the University of Essex.  Allows you to do a memory experiment and generate your own serial position curve  http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/experiments/memtask.html

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