Memory Model

This is a memory model taken from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs6751_97_winter/Topics/human-cap/memory.html

It shows the differant stages for creating and storing memories with the fastest decaying on the left and the more perminant on the right. To explain the flow, information enters as a sensory memory based on the attention span. Things chosen from an intrest or something which is not the norm is coded into the STM or working memory. Things that are or importants then get encoded again to form LTM which have 3 stages, at seperate areas of the brain. Rehearsal of STM will keep the memory active for longer than 30 seconds be it needs to have attention. Constant rehearsal will allow the information to encoded into LTM so that it can retreved again at some point in time. As an example an actor learning there lines.