Study: How accurate is visual memory?

[pjk]

Similarities, no repetition, too abstract information, too short memorization time, ... There are several reasons.

Are you sure the memo time has anything to do with it? Since you memo'ed it once, that means the information exists somewhere in your brain, it is just a matter of recalling it. Yes, time will create the paths to that information which will make it easier to recall, but is this necessary for each solve?

I can often memorize a cube visually quite fast, but then within 30 seconds I seem to have no recollection of what I remembered. I believe that practice will resolve this, but for now, what is causing me to forget?

Similarities, no repetition, too abstract information, too short memorization time, ... There are several reasons.

does that ever happen to you?

What do you mean? These are reasons why people forget information. I try to avoid all these points while memorizing.

Hmm, so what can't you avoid?
My visual memo is quite persistent, and it's been like that since my first BLD solve. I can reconstruct most of a solve any time within an hour if I haven't been doing other BLD solves.
Nevertheless, I try not to keep memo in my head intentionally, to help minimize confusion.

If your visual memo is quite persistent, perhaps you should try memo'ing faster. When I first started using visual memo, I would take a long time to memo, and I would be very persistent as well, and be able to recall a solve from the last 24 hours (depending on how many solves I did that day). I then began to push myself to the point where I'd think I would forget, and I ended up knocking my memo times way down, and I wasn't as persistent. Practice will obviously improve this.

Do you guys think that if you were glancing at a computer every 3 seconds which had a rotating cube on it that was scrambled identical to one you were memo'ing for a BLD solve, it would make it easier to recall the memo of the cube with shorter memo time? If so, why? If not, why not?

 

[tim]

Similarities, no repetition, too abstract information, too short memorization time, ... There are several reasons.

Are you sure the memo time has anything to do with it? Since you memo'ed it once, that means the information exists somewhere in your brain, it is just a matter of recalling it. Yes, time will create the paths to that information which will make it easier to recall, but is this necessary for each solve?

I don't know if that's true for visual memo, since i use proper memo methods . And for images that's definitely true.