'Sherlock' and the case of narrative perception
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 11:52
in Psychology & Sociology
'Chunking' is the means by which individual items or words are grouped together into larger units so that they can be processed or stored as single ideas. But until recently, there was no way to observe this phenomenon in the neural activity of the brain. Now researchers are reporting a way to use fMRI to investigate how the brain segments experiences during perception and how these experiences become long-term memories.