Human Memory

Introduction: introduction to human memory; memory metaphors; memory methodology; memory terminology. Part 1 Historical overview: a short history; Egypt, Greece and Rome; British empiricism and continental nativism; scientific psychology; Hermann Ebbinghaus; associationist theories of memory; connectionist networks; Part 2 Sensory memory: iconic memory; echoic memory; odour memory. Part 3 The modal model: primary memory; Broadbent's model; the Brown-Peterson paradigm; Waugh and Norman's model; Atkinson and Shiffrin's dual-store model; the serial-position curve and the modal model; problems with the modal model; additional problems with the modal model. Part 4 Current perspectives on immediate memory: working memory; critique of working memory; immediate memory as activation; the feature model; critique of the feature model; summary of current immediate memory theories. Part 5 Perspectives on processing: levels of processing; organization and distinctiveness; the encoding specificity principle; context and memory; the processing dissociation framework; what is encoded? Part 6 Principles of forgetting: consolidation theory; interference theory; decay versus interference; relative distinctiveness; forgetting as discrimination. Part 7 Implicit-memory and multiple-memory systems: implicit memory; indirect tests of implicit memory; implicit learning; experimental dissociations; the activation view; multiple-memory systems; transfer appropriate processing; the bias view; comparing bias, TAP, and the multiple-systems views. Part 8 Memory, brain and amnesia: the neuron; neural circuits; the brain; methods of investigation; localized versus distributed storage; amnesia; HM - a case study; theoretical accounts of amnesia; amnesia and implicit memory; where is memory? Part 9 Recognition: signal-detection theory; single-process models of recognition; generate-recognize models; beyond simple generate-recognize; remember versus know; the mirror effect; face recognition. Part 10 Global-memory models: SAM; MINERVA 2; TODAM; connectionist models; summary of global-memory models. Part 11 Knowledge: propositions and concepts; Collins and Quillian's hierarchical model; the feature-overlap model; Collins and Loftus's spreading-activation model; knowing that you don't know; priming; alternatives to spreading activation; comparing spreading-activation and compound-cue models; how is generic memory organized?; capacity and acquisition. Part 12 Imagery: analog versus propositional representations; the dual-task method; Paivio's dual-coding theory; mental rotation; distinguishing propositional from analog; arguments against imagery; imagery and perception; real versus imagined events; eidetic imagery; other forms of imagery. Part 13 Memory for when: data to be accounted for; models that don't work.