- Title
- A prospective for a unified model of episodic memory
- Creator
- Osth, Adam F.; Dennis, Simon
- Relation
- Cognitive Modeling in Perception and Memory: A Festschrift for Richard M. Shiffrin p. 126-141
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- "A critical problem of long standing in psychological study of memory is concerned with the relation between recall and recognition. In what sense are they the same, and in what sense are they different?" This quote began the well-revered Gillund and Shiffrin (1984) article that answered Tulving and Watkin's (1973) question in the form of the search of associative memory (SAM) model's unification of free recall and recognition memory. The SAM model, along with the other global memory models such as the theory of distributed associative memory, Minerva 2, and the matrix model, unified episodic memory as a whole. Collectively the global memory models were extended to a wide variety of domains that were presumed to reflect retrieval from episodic memory, including schema abstraction, judgements of frequency, memory for serial order, priming, probability estimation, generation of semantic representations, and spoken word recognition. Why has the field become increasingly focused on single memory tasks? While we cannot answer this question with precision, our suspicion is that this change in focus came about due to several findings in recognition memory, free recall, and serial recall that challenged the global memory models and led to their abandonment. Researchers have built models that have overcome these challenges but have often omitted consideration of how these models could be extended to other memory tasks. In this chapter, we present an overview of the challenges that arose and brief discussions of the current models, along with a prospective for unifying the various memory tasks. Interested readers are encouraged to consult the original publications of these models. In this review, we placed somewhat more emphasis on the serial recall task than the others as memory for serial order has received little attention from long-term memory researchers. We hypothesize that these challenges can be accommodated within the framework of the global memory models with only minimal revision to the core assumptions of these models.
- Subject
- episodic memory; global memory models; long term memory; serial recall tasks
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1322895
- Identifier
- uon:24684
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415709385
- Language
- eng
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