7,479 research outputs found
Dongara Flour Mill, Western Australia, ca. 1970 [transparency] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from external sources.; Inscriptions: "Relic of early days, Clinch's Mill near Dongarra WA, History"--In ink on slide mount.; In: Collection of slides of Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, ca. 1960-1980; The Mill opened in 1894 and began operations as the Royal Steam Roller Flour Mill. The building is four storeys high, built of local limestone with brick quoins to corners and openings and roofed in corrugated iron.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4180267
Sir Richard Trowbridge, the new State Governor, on St. George Terrace Perth, Western Australia, 25th November 1980 [transparency] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Inscriptions: "Sir Richard Trowbridge reaches St. Geo Terrace. Perth as new State Governor. Police escort about to fall in Nov. 25th 1980."--In ink on slide mount.; In: Collection of slides of Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, ca. 1960-1980; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4180236
ANZ Bank built from locally made bricks in 1906, Carnavon, Western Australia, ca. 1970 [transparency] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Inscriptions: "Built from locally made bricks in 1906 Carnavon WA"--In ink on slide mount.; In: Collection of slides of Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, ca. 1960-1980; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4180257
War memorial, Anzac Day, Carnavon, Western Australia, ca. 1970 [transparency] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Inscriptions: "ANZAC Day Carnavon WA"--In ink on slide mount.; In: Collection of slides of Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, ca. 1960-1980; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4180249
Attention to attributes and objects in working memory
No full textIt has been debated on the basis of change-detection procedures whether visual working memory is limited by the number of objects, task-relevant attributes within those objects, or bindings between attributes. This debate, however, has been hampered by several limitations, including the use of conditions that vary between studies and the absence of appropriate mathematical models to estimate the number of items in working memory in different stimulus conditions. We reexamined working memory limits in 2 experiments with a wide array of conditions involving color and shape attributes, relying on a set of new models to fit various stimulus situations. In Experiment 2, a new procedure allowed identical retrieval conditions across different conditions of attention at encoding. The results show that multiple attributes compete for attention, but that retaining the binding between attributes is accomplished only by retaining the attributes themselves. We propose a theoretical account in which a fixed object capacity limit contains within it the possibility of the incomplete retention of object attributes, depending on the direction of attention.</p
Gen. R. K.[?] Scott, U.S.A.
No full textTitle from unverified information on negative sleeve.Annotation from negative, glass side: R. K. Scott 50v.Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Models of verbal working memory capacity: What does it take to make them work?
No full textTheories of working memory (WM) capacity limits will be more useful when we know what aspects of performance are governed by the limits and what aspects are governed by other memory mechanisms. Whereas considerable progress has been made on models of WM capacity limits for visual arrays of separate objects, less progress has been made in understanding verbal materials, especially when words are mentally combined to form multiword units or chunks. Toward a more comprehensive theory of capacity limits, we examined models of forced-choice recognition of words within printed lists, using materials designed to produce multiword chunks in memory (e.g., leather brief case). Several simple models were tested against data from a variety of list lengths and potential chunk sizes, with test conditions that only imperfectly elicited the interword associations. According to the most successful model, participants retained about 3 chunks on average in a capacity-limited region of WM, with some chunks being only subsets of the presented associative information (e.g., leather brief case retained with leather as one chunk and brief case as another). The addition to the model of an activated long-term memory component unlimited in capacity was needed. A fixed-capacity limit appears critical to account for immediate verbal recognition and other forms of WM. We advance a model-based approach that allows capacity to be assessed despite other important processing contributions. Starting with a psychological-process model of WM capacity developed to understand visual arrays, we arrive at a more unified and complete model.</p
Knowledge of memory functions in European and Asian American adults and children: The relation to autobiographical memory
No full textThis study investigated explicit knowledge of autobiographical memory functions using a newly developed questionnaire. European and Asian American adults (N = 57) and school-aged children (N = 68) indicated their agreement with 13 statements about why people think about and share memories pertaining to four broad functions-self, social, directive and emotion regulation. Children were interviewed for personal memories concurrently with the memory function knowledge assessment and again 3 months later. It was found that adults agreed to the self, social and directive purposes of memory to a greater extent than did children, whereas European American children agreed to the emotion regulation purposes of memory to a greater extent than did European American adults. Furthermore, European American children endorsed more self and emotion regulation functions than did Asian American children, whereas Asian American adults endorsed more directive functions than did European American adults. Children's endorsement of memory functions, particularly social functions, was associated with more detailed and personally meaningful memories. These findings are informative for the understanding of developmental and cultural influences on memory function knowledge and of the relation of such knowledge to autobiographical memory development.Psychology, [email protected]; [email protected],SI25-382
Externalising the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention
No full textInternet technology provides a new means of recalling and sharing personal memories in the digital age. What is the mnemonic consequence of posting personal memories online? Theories of transactive memory and autobiographical memory would make contrasting predictions. In the present study, college students completed a daily diary for a week, listing at the end of each day all the events that happened to them on that day. They also reported whether they posted any of the events online. Participants received a surprise memory test after the completion of the diary recording and then another test a week later. At both tests, events posted online were significantly more likely than those not posted online to be recalled. It appears that sharing memories online may provide unique opportunities for rehearsal and meaning-making that facilitate memory retention.U.S. Department of Agriculture; Cornell University; Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [31528014]PubMedSSCIARTICLE6772-7762
Recollection reduces unitised familiarity effect
No full textTwo types of encoding tasks have been employed in previous research to investigate the beneficial effect of unitisation on familiarity-based associative recognition (unitised familiarity effect), namely the compound task and the interactive imagery task. Here we show how these two tasks could differentially engage subsequent recollection-based associative recognition and consequently lead to the turn-on or turn-off of the unitised familiarity effect. In the compound task, participants studied unrelated word pairs as newly learned compounds. In the interactive imagery task, participants studied the same word pairs as interactive images. An associative recognition task was used in combination with the Remember/Know procedure to measure recollection-based and familiarity-based associative recognition. The results showed that the unitised familiarity effect was present in the compound task but was absent in the interactive imagery task. A comparison of the compound and the interactive imagery task revealed a dramatic increase in recollection-based associative recognition for the interactive imagery task. These results suggest that unitisation could benefit familiarity-based associative recognition; however, this effect will be eliminated when the memory trace formed is easily accessed by strong recollection without the need for a familiarity [email protected]
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