Re: Off Topic: Memory

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:17:38 -0700 (PDT), normandraper@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

Last night 60 Minutes had a segment... this is uncomfortable.... about
a woman who was raped. While the rape was in progress, she tried to
remember everything she could in order to facilitate his capture by
the police..... scarrs, tattoos.... She recognized his picture and
then picked him out of a line-up. She identified him in the courtroom
and he was sent to jail.

And she was wrong. Go here if you want to see it:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

Given that my memory is something of a concern to me, I was fascinated
by the entire thing. And what comes in my email today? A memory
test... I promise you, this is not one of those things that ends with
a scary face and a loud noise. It's from the BBC and is very
interesting, IMHO. I didn't do well. If you have a few minutes, take
the test and let me know how you did.

Here's what was sent to me:

Facial Recognition

This is a test to see how well you can remember faces and when. There
are two parts A and B, and each part will have 12 photos of faces.
You only have a short time, 4 seconds, to see each face before the
program moves to the next face. Part A will begin and when that is
finished you can start Part B.. When Part B is finished, the test
will begin. The test will consist of showing 48 faces and below each
face you will have a choice of choosing whether you have seen the
face, either in Part A or in Part B, or whether or not you have seen
the face at all. After you have made you selection for face number 48
your score will appear and you will be able to see how you scored.

Good luck!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/instructions_1.shtml

C'mon!! You've wasted this much time! What's another five minutes!!


Norman (Loving Retirement!) Draper

Interesting how often topics come up here and at completely unrelated
sources. In this case, the Washington Post magazine features an
article on the deaths of children from people forgetting they're in
the car. I've only just started reading it but it addresses the causes
- the rather haphazard way our brains are built, sort of like kludged
software, and the tendency for the basal ganglia to take over.

Really sad. These are not abusive parents or anything of the sort but
are often charged with a crime on top of their grief and guilt, yet
apparently (as I said, I've just started reading it) is caused by our
brain's wiring and, I'm inferring, the huge number of tasks and
distractions with which "modern" humans are coping.

fdp

P.S. haven't tried the test yet - keep forgetting

-------------------------------------------------
Fred Pierce - avialantic.com
coming soon.... cobscookbaymusic.com
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Off Topic: Memory
    ... "Fred Pierce" wrote in message ... I've only just started reading it but it addresses the causes ... - the rather haphazard way our brains are built, sort of like kludged ... P.S. haven't tried the test yet - keep forgetting ...
    (rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic)
  • Re: Sorting
    ... Now I want to be able to sort those ... into memory and then sort them. ... but it's clear that you can't sort without reading ... Now while sorting ...
    (comp.programming)
  • Re: Clear the computers memory?
    ... reading the man pages I can't figure out how to sort the processes ... according to how much memory they take. ... Hitting 'M' while top is running will sort the processes in descending ... IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: Belated look at the OSXhints April Fools front page
    ... sort of direction you want to be going in to sort things out. ... extra support for dyslexics. ... I had to practice and practice and practice to get my working memory ... able to remember the spelling of a word on reading it. ...
    (uk.comp.sys.mac)
  • Re: Can operant conditioning account for all learning?
    ... of incoming stimuli - without ever forgetting a single thing - ... All we need to make this work is infinite memory! ... come supplied with an appropriate forgetting algorithm. ...
    (comp.ai.philosophy)