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From: lammens@sunybcs.uucp (Johan Lammens)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Lightbulbs and Related Thoughts
Keywords: problem solving,thought linkage
Message-ID: <2638@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 14 Nov 88 15:42:51 GMT
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In article <778@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
>Don't forget to include the iconic memory.  This is the buffers
>so to speak of our sensory processes.  I am sure that you have
>saw many aspects of this phenomenon by now.  Examples are staring
>at a flag of the United States for 30 seconds, then observing the
>complementary colors of the flag if you then look at a blank wall
>(usually works best if the wall is dark).  [...]

Perhaps this question is a witness to my ignorance, but isn't the phenomenon
you describe a result of the way the retina processes images, and if
so, do you mean to say that iconic memory is located in the retina?

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