Does what we've heard influence what we hear?

[donkey tugger]

Dirtgram: your post pretty much sums up what I was trying to say. Do you know if that theory has a name?

Vurt: sometimes I wonder if herbs and potions are the reason I think about stuff like this?

Information Processing Model:

The conversion of new information from working memory to long-term memory requires a process called Consolidation. As suggested by the Information Processing Model, consolidation is a complex process involving comparison of new information in limited storage to “previous knowledge” through Retrieval of related information from long-term memory. Thus, virtually no new information is consolidated without first comparing it to information we already have. Every bit of new information will be compared to “old” information already stored in long-term memory banks. Thus, if I tell you that in my living room I have an entertainment unit with a stereo, DVD, and television that sits just to the left of a brick fireplace, you see a version of the scene based entirely on images of entertainment units and fireplaces that you have already stored in your long-term memory. You can’t control this – all new information is encountered in terms of previous knowledge.

Seems to me to be a bit of a riff (hoho..) on Hume's version of empiricism?


https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume ... se%20terms.