Assertion: memory's capacity | /r/CapableOf | store information
Facets:
value: during a task
type: TEMPORAL
value: before decay
type: TEMPORAL
value: for 3–4 seconds
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Since the development of the computer in the 1940s, memory is also used to describe the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall, as well as the physical components of the computer in which such information is stored.
text: There have been various theories offered to explain why these changes may occur, which include fewer attentional resources, slower speed of processing, less capacity to hold information, and lack of inhibitory control.
text: The first is the storage of words that we hear, this tends to have the capacity to retain information for 3–4 seconds before decay, which is a much longer duration than iconic memory (which is less than 1000ms).
text: What we do know is that our brain has a limited capacity to hold on to information during a task and has a hard time deflecting distractions (as anyone trying to hit a deadline has surely experienced).
text: Memory has also come to refer to a computer's capacity to store information.