The Three Most Relevan Sins of Human Memory

For cognitive neuroscientists who study memory, incompleteness of human memory is a commonly accepted fact. People often forget to assign or confuse the information submitted to them by mistake. In epoch - making commentary, Daniel Schacter (1999, 2002) recorded seven memorial charges. However, the three most relevant aspects of this study are inattention, misallocation, and existing beliefs and bias. The first sin of memory is lack of attention. Studies have shown that massive forgetting occurs due to inadequate attention to specific stimuli during coding or search, resulting in insufficient information.

Memory researchers often use the so-called three store model to conceptualize human memory. This model shows that memory consists of three basic stores: perception, short and long term storage, and each storage can be distinguished based on storage capacity and duration. Although long-term memory seems to have seemingly infinite capacity in the past few years, short-term memory is relatively short and limited. By grouping information into groups, it makes it easier to remember more items in a short period of time.

It is thought that information can be stored in three main storage areas: sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory. Information is sequentially stored in the three storage systems, and the storage area varies according to the time frame. The period of holding information is only 1 to several years. Sensory memory stores only short messages. Short-term memory can store information for longer periods of time, but usually it takes only 30-45 seconds. But long-term memory may last a lifetime

In the last article, I wrote about how to design human attention. Attention is closely related to work and short term memory. However, this article focuses on the whole human memory system. There are two types of memory: short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM). In terms of computer science terminology, we can think of short-term memory as RAM and long-term memory as HDD. I will explain how they work, how to design the interface to eliminate confusion, and how to reduce the cognitive effort the user must do. All of these should lead to a more user-oriented user experience.

Three memories are important for learning. Working memory, short - term memory, and long - term memory are used to process language and non - verbal information. If any or all of these types of memory are defective, the storage and retrieval capabilities of the information necessary to perform the task may be compromised.