sensory memory

What will be an ideal response?


-brief storage of perceptual information before it is passed to short term memory
-helpful system because it buys our brains a bit of extra time to process incoming sensations
-it allows us to "fill in the blanks" n our perceptions and see the world as an unbroken stream of events
-each sense has its own form of sensory memory
-all information is lost within a second or so
-each sense has a sensory memory associated with it

Psychology

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