首页
登录
职称英语
New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that we can remember more fa
New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that we can remember more fa
游客
2023-08-30
53
管理
问题
New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that we can remember more faces than other objects and that faces "stick" the best in our short-term memory. The reason may be that our expertise in remembering faces allows us to package them better for memory.
"Our results show that we can store more faces than other objects in our visual short-term memory," Gauthier, associate professor of psychology and the study’s co-author, said. "We believe this happens because of the special way in which faces are encoded."
Kim Curby, the study’s primary author and a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, likens such encoding to packing a suitcase. "How much you can fit in a bag depends on how well you pack it," she said. "In the same way, our expertise in ’packaging’ faces means that we can remember more of them."
Curby and Gauthier’s research has practical implications for the way we use visual short-term memory or VSTM. "Being able to store more faces in VSTM may be very useful in complex social situations," Gauthier said.
"This opens up the possibility of training people to develop similarly superior VSTM for other categories of objects," Curby added.
Short-term memory is crucial to our impression of a continuous world, serving as temporary storage for information that we are currently using. For example, in order to understand this sentence, your short-term memory will remember the words in the beginning while you read through to the end. VSTM is a component of short-term memory that helps us process and briefly remember images and objects, rather than words and sounds.
VSTM allows us to remember objects for a few seconds, but its capacity is limited. Curby and Gauthier’s new research focuses on whether we can store more faces than other objects in VSTM, and the possible mechanisms underlying this advantage.
Study participants studied up to five faces on a screen for varying lengths of time (up to four seconds). A single face was later presented and participants decided if this was a face that was part of the original display. For a comparison, the process was repeated with other objects, like watches or cars.
Curby and Gauthier found that when participants studied the displays for only a brief amount of time (half a second), they could store fewer faces than objects in VSTM. They believe this is because faces are more complex than watches or cars and require more time to be encoded. Surprisingly, when participants were given more time to encode the images (four seconds), an advantage for faces over objects emerged.
The researchers believe that our experience with faces explains this advantage. This theory is supported by the fact that the advantage was only obtained for faces encoded in the upright orientation, with which we are most familiar. Faces that were encoded upside-down showed no advantage over other objects. [br] In the last two paragraphs, what "advantage" refers to is ______.
选项
A、we store more objects than faces
B、we remember objects longer than faces
C、we store more faces than objects
D、we remember faces longer than objects
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2970293.html
相关试题推荐
Researchcarriedoutinrecentopinionpollsshowsthat______.[br]Accordingt
Researchcarriedoutinrecentopinionpollsshowsthat______.[br]Theenclosu
Researchcarriedoutinrecentopinionpollsshowsthat______.[br]Thearticle
[originaltext]Asaresultofrisinguniversitycosts,manystudentsarefin
[originaltext]Asaresultofrisinguniversitycosts,manystudentsarefin
[originaltext]Asaresultofrisinguniversitycosts,manystudentsarefin
Whatthewisemansaidsuggeststhat______.[br]Thekeypointofthepassagei
Whatthewisemansaidsuggeststhat______.[br]Thewriterissorrytohaveno
Whatthewisemansaidsuggeststhat______.[br]Accordingtotheauthor,ifa
[originaltext]Asaresultofrisinguniversitycosts,manystudentsarefind
随机试题
It’saprogramdesignedto______mainlyto16to25yearolds.A、includeB、appreci
Bytheendofnextmonthhe________everythinginschool.A、willfinishB、wouldha
Thechantof"digital,digital,digital"continuestogrowinvolumeworldwi
根据《中华人民共和国注册建筑师条例》,下列()不是注册建筑师的义务。A.保证
风机盘管机组和绝热材料进场时,应对其下列技术性能参数进行复验,复验应为见证取样送
以下计量单位是“m2”的是( )。A.中粒式沥青混凝土 B.现浇混凝土加固土
李某,女性,78岁。1年来渐见肢体痿软无力,尤以下肢明显,腰膝酸软,不能久立,腿
房地产经纪机构代办存量房抵押贷款时,应按()收取服务费。A.抵押贷款期限
商品租金包括的内容有()。A:折旧费、维修费B:管理费、投资利息C:房产税、
甲公司欠乙公司30万元,一直无力偿付,现丙公司欠甲公司20万元,已到期,但甲公司
最新回复
(
0
)