ABSTRACT
This chapter considers two types of memories. The first are very short-term memories, known as the sensory registers. The second is what is more formally known as short-term memory. The chapter also considers three sensory registers: visual sensory register, or iconic memory; the auditory sensory register, or echoic memory; and the haptic sensory register for touch information. Short-term memory is responsible for processing and retaining information beyond the sensory registers, but not much longer than a minute or so. Short-term memory is unique in that its contents include consciousness. Short-term memory can hold only a small amount of information for a few seconds. Some kind of memory is needed for even brief periods of time, and each sensory modality has a sensory register dedicated to it. The integration of trans-saccadic visual information over time is done in a systematic, object-based way, and anorthoscopic perception reveals how people integrate object information when an image is passed behind an aperture.
