Class Notes - July 01

1st Article
○ Memorising something 10 times every day is much more effective than memorising something 100 times once.

Miller
○ Why bits? Simplify information to "it is" or "it isn't."
○ The problem of comparing information is that how can you compare decibels to meters. If we can abstract how the information is stored with a binary system, we can compare how the mind deals with these things.
○ Subitizing - what you know for sure
○ Estimation - what you do after you run out of bin space
○ Numerousness - number and types of bins to categorize

Anderson
○ Claim = Memory mirrors the environment
○ Environment
§ NY Times = 100 days
§ Utterances from parent to a child
§ E-mail
○ Frequency and recency dictate in the environment which words are likely to show up again
○ Memory follows this. The forgetting curve becomes less steep the more that we bring it back to memory and practice it. Brain is calculating some need probability for how much we will need something again. It prioritizes what we keep and what we forget
○ Research Idea. Take non-sensible utterances, examine which utterances were forgotten and see if they were forgotten because our brain decided that these sounds won't be used, aren't prioritized because the sound is not as frequent in our speech.

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