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The sole purpose of the "English Kinda Thing" is to document my attempts to correct my own mistakes in standard English usage and to share the resources I find. In no way do I attempt to teach nobody English through these blurbs--just as I intend not to teach nobody to be a neurotic and psychotic handicap in Ratology Reloaded or Down with Meds! :-)

Friday, August 30, 2013

Conway, Cowan & Bunting (2001). The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity

From extended LTM activation (high capacity) to low cognitive capacity.  It all makes sense.  Why?  Dedicated to the rightfully wrong processes la! Like... Oh... nice processor with high processing power... but... what is your high speed doing exactly? lol 8-X 

Conway, Andrew R.A., Cowan, Nelson, & Bunting, Michael F. (2001). The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8(2), 331-335. 

"we show that subjects who detect their name in the irrelevant message have relatively low working-memory capacities, suggesting that they have difficulty blocking out, or inhibiting, distracting information."

This is why I have always proposed that we psychotics have to find ways to expand da processing capacity of ours.  Having a chunk of WM capacity dedicated to processing of psychotic cognition to begin with, there is surely not much capacity left to perform things like blocking out, or inhibiting, distracting information.  Gotta make sure the surplus is not dedicated to psychotic cognition though.  How to?  A good question.

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