Dispelling the magic: Towards memory without capacity
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1):147-148 (2001)
| Abstract | The limited capacity for unrelated things is a fact that needs to be explained by a general theory of memory, rather than being itself used as a means of explaining data. A pure storage capacity is therefore not the right assumption for memory research. Instead an explanation is needed of how capacity limitations arise from the interaction between the environment and the cognitive system. The ACT-R architecture, a theory without working memory but a long-term memory based on activation, may provide such an explanation. | |||||||||
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