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Following high-speed presentation of stimuli, subjects falsely recognized prototype numbers and words as being among the set of original stimuli. The results suggest high-speed abstraction of information by subjects during or shortly after high-speed perception. This abstraction of a class of information may leave a memory trace that is a more memorable representation of events (as measured by recognition techniques) than are the perceived stimuli. These results suggest that very short-term processing of information is more complicated than simple sequential dualistic models of memory assume.
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Portions of this article are based on a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November 6, 1987, Seattle.
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Solso, R.L., Heck, M. & Mearns, C. Prototype formation in very short-term memory. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 185–188 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337320
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