Doorways and the mind

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Doorways and the mind

Post by Pigeon » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:11 pm

New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.

“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains.

“Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.”

The study was published recently in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

So it might be better to study and learn in the work area?

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Re: Doorways and the mind

Post by Royal » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:21 pm

This explains why I found recall easier when studying in one spot rather than multiple locations.

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Re: Doorways and the mind

Post by Royal » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:25 pm

This concept is why hiking new trails can bring about a flood of new ideas.

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Re: Doorways and the mind

Post by Royal » Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:55 pm

Thin Slicing
Thin-slicing is a term used in psychology and philosophy to describe the ability to find patterns in events based only on "thin slices," or narrow windows, of experience. The term seems to have been coined in 1992 by Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal in a paper in the Psychological Bulletin.

The Theory of Thin Slices: How a Little Bit of Knowledge Goes a Long Way
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/boo ... link_x.htm


Method of Loci
The method of loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria). The items can be remembered in mnemonic system are mentally associated with specific physical locations.[1] It relies on memorized spatial relationships to establish, order and recollect memorial content. The term is most often found in specialised works on psychology, neurobiology and memory, though it was used in the same general way at least as early as the first half of the nineteenth century in works on rhetoric, logic and philosophy.

The method of loci is also commonly referred to as the journey method. In basic terms, it is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualization to organize and recall information. Many memory contest champions claim to use this technique in order to recall faces, digits, and lists of words. These champions’ successes have little to do with brain structure or intelligence, but more to do with their technique of using regions of their brain that have to do with spatial learning. Those parts of the brain that contribute most significantly to this technique include the medial parietal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, and the right posterior hippocampus.

O'Keefe and Nadel refer to
'the method of loci', an imaginal technique known to the ancient Greeks and Romans and described by Yates (1966) in her book The Art of Memory as well as by Luria (1969). In this technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject literally 'walks' through these loci and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any distinguishing feature of that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by 'walking' through the loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items. The efficacy of this technique has been well established (Ross and Lawrence 1968, Crovitz 1969, 1971, Briggs, Hawkins and Crovitz 1970, Lea 1975), as is the minimal interference seen with its use.[3]

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Re: Doorways and the mind

Post by Royal » Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:03 am

How about software forms and windows?

Form- In a database context, a form is a window or screen that contains numerous fields, or spaces to enter data. Each field holds a field label so that any user who views the form gets an idea of its contents. A form is more user friendly than generating queries to create tables and insert data into fields.

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Re: Doorways and the mind

Post by Pigeon » Mon Jul 18, 2016 1:54 am

A front end to a query.

A form is more user friendly than generating queries to create tables and insert data into columns.

Tables, rows and columns

Files, records and fields

dataset

A directory is a file folder. really?

head bang

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