ABSTRACT
This chapter explores information impinging on the senses initially goes into what is called sensory store, which is the subject matter and examines some characteristics of the transfer process. Visual information entering the eyes is initially placed into a visual sensory store, called iconic store. Pattern recognition is the term used to describe the process of transferring information from sensory store to short-term store. The pattern-recognition program then has the job of transferring the raw sensory information from sensory store into short-term store. In the process two things happen. First, the physical representation of the information is changed or recoded. Second, the raw sensory information from the environment is supplemented by information already stored in long-term store. An analogous situation occurs when information is to be transferred from sensory store to short-term store. Sensory store can hold a good deal more information than can short-term store.
