540 Pages
by
Psychology Press
538 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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First published in 1973. This book proposes and tests a theory about human memory, about how a person encodes, retains, and retrieves information from memory. The book is especially concerned with memory for sentential materials. We propose a theoretical framework which is adequate for describing comprehension of linguistic materials, for exhibiting the internal representation of propositional... Read more
Preface, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. ASSOCIATIONISM: A HISTORICAL REVIEW, 3. RATIONALIST COUNTERTRADITIONS, 4. COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELS OF MEMORY, 5. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN LINGUISTICS, 6. AN OVERVIEW OF HAM, 7. THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE, 8. THE ENCODING PROBLEM, 9. THE RECOGNITION PROCESS, 10. MODEL FOR SENTENCE LEARNING, 11. PROPERTIES OF THE MEMORY STRUCTURE, 12. FACT RETRIEVAL, 13. QUESTION ANSWERING, 14. VERBAL LEARNING, 15. INTERFERENCE AND FORGETTING, 16. AN EPITAPH, Author Index, Subject Index
Biography
John R. Anderson The University of Michigan, Gordon H. Bower Standford University
"Altogether impressive...It is rather astonishing to find a book that aspires to develop a comprehensive theory of memory and indeed delivers a theory that...is reasonably well specified, formalized in some parts, computer implemented in others rather extensively tested against experimental results, and set firmly in the context of historical discussion of western speculation about the nature of human memory."
—Contemporary Psychology
