Human Memory
The General Theory and Its Various Models

A comprehensive account of the past 50 years of cognitive research on human memory.

Kenneth J. Malmberg (Author)

9781009440394, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 December 2024

274 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.55 kg

The General Theory of human memory is the most prominent result of the cognitive revolution in psychology. Despite its role in modern memory research, the General Theory is not well understood. This book describes the General Theory of human memory and applies it to numerous empirical phenomena. It details the prominent architectures for formally modeling the flow of information among the proposed memory structures using the search of associative memory (SAM) and the retrieving effectively from memory (REM) models.

Forward
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Models of cognitive control, storage, and retrieval
3. Search and detection
4. Sequential effects
5. Forgetting
6. Differentiation
7. Knowledge
8. Modeling the consequences of testing memory
9. The buffer model revisited
Concluding comments
Index.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]