Learning, Memory and Attention - HCI - EPFL

Memory: is what people forget with
• A American heritage dictionary: memory is the mental
faculty of retaining and recalling past experience
- Sensory store, short and long term stores
• Short-term memory has two important characteristics.
First, short-term memory can contain at any given
time seven, plus or minus two, "chunks" of
information. Second, items remain in short-term
memory around twenty seconds.
Prof. Dr. Pearl Pu
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