Abstract
Experiments are performed that demonstrate some of the functional properties of short-term storage in the visual system, its decay, readout and erasure. Results indicate that the visual process involves a buffer storage which includes an erasure mechanism that is local in character and tends to erase stored information when new information is put in. Storage time appears to be of the order of one-quarter second; storage capacity is more difficult to assess.
Keywords
ErasureInformation storageComputer scienceComputer data storageTerm (time)Process (computing)Data stripingComputer hardwareOptical storageOperating systemDatabasePhysics
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- 40
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- 309-328
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Emanuel Averbach,
A. S. Coriell
(1961).
Short-Term Memory in Vision.
Bell System Technical Journal
, 40
(1)
, 309-328.
https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1961.tb03987.x
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- 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1961.tb03987.x