Memory And Time

还有什么比在短时间内以正确的顺序记住几个项目（比如电话号码中的数字）更简单的呢？尽管它很简单，但这种连续回忆任务对于人类复杂的能力（如词汇习得）是必不可少的。这个项目调查了时间顺序是否是短期记忆的一个因果变量。但绝不是全部？理论假设。实验将利用新技术操纵学习和检索项目之间的时间间隔，从而观察时间对记忆的影响。心理时间的计算模型将被开发出来，以更好地预测记忆表现。

What could be simpler than remembering a few items, such as the digits in a phone number, for a brief time in the right order? Notwithstanding its simplicity, this serial recall task is essential for sophisticated human abilities such as vocabulary acquisition. This project investigates whether chronological time is a causal variable in short-term memory, as some?but by no means all?theorists assume. Experiments will manipulate time between items at study and retrieval using novel techniques, and thus observe the effect of time on memory. Computational models of psychological time will be developed to better predict memory performance.