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Off topic response to memory issue - not XML Memory - The human brain is a neural network - this means we do not have menory like in a computer but a memory system that approximates the original input. It is pattern recognition and pattern recognition is approximate at best. The consciousness is updated by:- current context inputs long term memory What is in the conscious memory acts as an "address" (a pattern input) to the long term memory which responds with more data added to the short term memory and this conscious memory. ie there is a feed back mechansim operating and what and how people recognise and think is very much determined by their past learning. There is also inaccuracies in this system - error: Marijuana -tetro hydro cannanabol lowers neuron threshold, this more "data references" are available in the consciousness and the conscious memory will "expand" with lots of data. A point is reached where a high is reached and this feels good. BUT the quality of this data is lower than normal and this low quality data is used to update the long term memory - thus the quality of the long term memory is lowered and long term Dope smokers have great difficulty coping with the world. The point here is:- memory is specific to individuals - there is no generality about different people's ability to remember. Some exposed to lots of numbers will remember - with practice lots, others can not remember any. do not pin hopes on any one number - identify the nature of the person first. The short term memory ----- Original Message ----- From: Didier PH Martin <martind@n...> To: <Andy.Bradbury@s...>; <xml-dev@i...> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 9:23 AM Subject: RE: Off-topic: Magic Number 7 (WAS: Re: XML Editors - Word 2000?? ) > Hi Andy, > > I said gifted without mentioning that this skill is the result or nature or > of culture or even practice or any other kind of emotional state or source. > I agree that the word was badly chosen. > > This said, it seems (from observation and experiments) that long term memory > is more influenced by emotional state than short term memory. Miller > referred to some experiments but these experiments tell us nothing about > short term memory being influenced by emotional state or practice. From > observation and experiments, we have indications that long term memory is > influenced by emotional state. But it seems that short term memory is not as > sensible to this variable. So, being open to your arguments, do you have any > article or study specifying explicitly that short term memory is influenced > by emotional state or practice? > > regards > Didier PH Martin > mailto:martind@n... > http://www.netfolder.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > Andy.Bradbury@s... > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 5:23 AM > To: xml-dev@i... > Subject: RE: Off-topic: Magic Number 7 (WAS: Re: XML Editors - Word > 2000?? ) > > > > > Didier wrote: > >The magic seven comes from a well know article form George Miller in 1956 > >called "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our > >Capacity for Processing Information". In this now famous article, Miller > >stated that the short term memory can handle 7 elements plus or minus 2. > >This means that gifted people can remember with their short term memory 9 > >elements and the less gifted 5. The average person can remember 7 > > Just for the sake of accuracy, this has nothing whatever to do with being > gifted. > > Miller's article simply records certain experiments (carried out by other > researchers) and notes the overall implications. > > In practise, unless you are skilled in memorisation techniques, the amount > of information you can carry in working memory will vary according to > context, emotional state, interest in the material being memorised and so > on. > > Regards > > Andy B. > > > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN > 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following > message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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