Memory behavior requires knowledge structures, not memory stores

Memory behavior requires knowledge structures, not memory stores

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...

Iconic memory requires attention

Two experiments investigated whether attention plays a role in iconic memory, employing either a change detection paradigm (Experiment 1) or a partial-report paradigm (Experiment 2). In each experiment, attention was taxed during initial display presentation, focusing the manipulation on consolidation of information into iconic memory, prior to transfer into working memory. Observers were able ...

Graph Processing in Main-Memory Column Stores

Musical Works are Maximal Memory Stores

The book A Generative Theory of Shape (Michael Leyton, Springer-Verlag, 2001) develops new foundations to geometry in which shape is equivalent to memory storage. With respect to this, the argument is given that art-works are maximal memory stores. The present paper reviews some of the basic principles concerning our claim that, in particular, musical works are maximal memory stores. The argume...

Memory Module Structures for Shared Memory Simulation

The shared memory programming model on top of a physically distributed memory machine (SDMM) is a promising candidate for easy-to-program general purpose parallel computation. There are, however, certain open technical problems which should be sufficiently solved before SDMM can meet the expectations. Among them is low-level structure of memory system, because most academic studies of the subje...