Structural and transient components of memory
- 1 March 1975
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 3 (2) , 210-215
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03212899
Abstract
The decomposition of free recall serial position curves into permanent and transient components (primary and secondary memory, Waugh & Norman, 1965) is widely accepted. In this paper, a hypothesis is proposed directly relating the permanent memory component to a vector quantity which reflects sequential allocation of attention during encoding. In conjunction with a previously published model for encoding and retrieval in free recall (Hogan, 1975), the hypothesis is shown to break down predicted serial position curves into permanent and transient components, in a manner analogous to but in various ways less restrictive than the decomposition proposed by Waugh and Norman.Keywords
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