Because memory enters into virtually all cognition, it is impossible to                  design cognitive models that view memory as a self-contained cognitive faculty.                  Instead, memory researchers focus on specific aspects of memory. Taking this                  regional approach to memory, the chapters of this volume evaluate models of the                  short-term retention of knowledge, conceptual knowledge, autobiographical knowledge,                  transitory mental representations, the neurobiological basis of memory, and                  age-related changes in human memory. At the center of each chapter is a concern with                  the problem of representation--how the mind represents reality and, in the case of                  memory, how experience is represented, retained, and reconstructed. The authors                  evaluate the models against empirical findings and against current knowledge about                  brain function and architecture. They also address the relationship between formal                  and nonformal models of human memory.

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