Achilles Ear: Our Recall For Sounds Is Worse Than For Sight And Touch
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 19:51
in Psychology & Sociology
Our brains may not be optimized for recalling things we hear, the way we are good at remembering things we see or touch. Psychologists doing a study of over 100 University of Iowa college students found that they were less able to recall a variety of sounds the way they could visuals and things they felt. In an experiment testing short term-memory, participants were asked to listen to pure tones they heard through headphones, look at various shades of red squares, and feel low-intensity vibrations by gripping an aluminum bar. Each set of tones, squares and vibrations was separated by time delays ranging from one to 32 seconds. read more