Short Vs. Long Term Memory: Dr. Eddy Davelaar

Eddy Davelaar PhD One of the most enduring debates in the psychological literature is that of the distinction between short- and long-term memory. Whereas the old data is still used in the recent debates (Davelaar et al., 2005, 2006; Howard & Kahana, 2002; Neath & Brown, 2006), the methods employed have become more sophisticated and analytic. In this talk, I will continue the trend of previous authors (Crowder, 1982; Greene, 1986) and summarize the various data patterns that need to be accounted for. I will disentangle the components of the debate and focus on the various definitions of short-term storage. Within the activation-based framework, short-term storage is a process of sustained activation of long-term knowledge and is different from a separate box in which information is placed for a short term. I will show that previous mathematical treatments have not exhausted the various definitions of short-term storage and as such a short-term buffer has never been fully explained away. I will present new empirical findings that provide interesting challenges for any contemporary model of memory and new computational results that show why having an activation-based short-term buffer is useful in monitoring self-learning.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Memory
• Cognitive
• Self-Monitoring
• LSI
• Vanderbilt
• Peabody

[Megametalwolf]

very good