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Perhaps, but it felt like what was missing was somewhere in the middle and that something worked like dumping your RAM onto your hard drive. Dumps kept failing
by fishnchips 10y ago
Perhaps, but it felt like what was missing was somewhere in the middle and that something worked like dumping your RAM onto your hard drive. Dumps kept failing and the brain rebooted. Fascinating now but super scary back then.
- rincebrain 10y agoApparently, per WP, "Tarnow shows that the recall probability vs. latency curve is a straight line from 6 to 600 seconds (ten minutes), with the probability of failure to recall only saturating after 600 seconds."[1] So it seems reasonable that, indeed, the "short-term" store was functioning, but the long-term was failing to encode, and the loss occurred as the "short-term" store faded. Regardless, I'm glad it was transient. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-term_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-term_memory, which cites http://cogprints.org/4273/1/The_structure_of_short_term_memory_-_Tarnow.pdf http://cogprints.org/4273/1/The_structure_of_short_term_memo...