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Memory Behaviour Requires Knowledge Structures, Not Memory Stores, Guillermo J. Campitelli
Memory Behaviour Requires Knowledge Structures, Not Memory Stores, Guillermo J. Campitelli
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Since the inception of cognitive psychology dominant theories of memory behavior have used the storage metaphor. In the multi-store models (e.g., Broadbent, 1958; Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968; Baddeley and Hitch, 1974) the memory system comprises one or more short-term memory (STM) stores and a long-term memory (LTM) store. These stores are places where information is located for varying periods of time (i.e., seconds in the STM stores, and minutes to lifetime in the LTM store) and they have varying capacity limits: large for the LTM store, very limited for the STM store—4 to 7 items, see Miller (1956), Broadbent (1958), …