James

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James Tuftette

• Study of Short Term Memory Modalities
• modality separate sensory system (i.e.,
  vision, hearing, touch, etc.)
• A Possible Partial Basis for a Learning Styles
  Theory...?

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Short Term Memory Modalities

• How many senses/sensory systems do we all have?
• i.e., how many distinct systems or ways of
  knowing do we have to learn about and represent
  information about the world?

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The Five standard ones

• 1) Visual (V)
• 2) Auditory
• 3) Olfactory (O)
• 4) Gustatory (G)
• 5) Haptic - touch (H)
• 5) Pressure / vibration (H)
• 6) Temperature (t)
• 7) Kinesthetic (K) sensomotor

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And Perhaps Some Others
Some (perhaps) questionables

• 8) Balance (B)
• 9) Temporal (T)
• 10) Emotional / Affective (E)
• 11) Linguistic (L) language
• 11A) Linguistic-Visual (LV) (?)
• 11B) Linguistic-Auditory (LA) (?)

• 12) Spatial (S) (?)
• 12A) Spatial-Visual (SV)
• 12B) Spatial-Auditory (SA)
• 13) Episodic (E) (?) personal episodes
• 14) Wholistic (W) (??) faces, totalities,
  etc.
• 15) Motion (M) (???)

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Short Term Memory Systems Study

• Experiment to test for separate memory modalities
• Tested for seven separate systems
• V, A, H, K, LV, LA, SA
• visual linguistic-visuallinguistic-auditory
  auditoryhaptic/touchkinesthetic/sensomotorspat
  ial-auditory

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Method

• Short term memory recall
• Presented subjects with sequence of visual
  images, spoken words, printed words, touches,
  movements, etc.
• Then asked for a free recall of what they could
  remember

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Results
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N SUM(VLVLAK HSAA)
18
16
14
12
?Ni Ni
10
N
8
N SUM(VLVLA)
6
?Ni Ni
4
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Number of same modality items in the test sequence