Representations, predictions, and remembrances in CHARM: a reply to Lindsay (1991)
Lindsay (1991), in his comment CHARMed, but not Convinced: Comment on Metcalfe (1990), acknowledged that distributed models of human memory using the construct of a composite memory trace, such as the Composite Holographic Associative Recall Model (CHARM), are able to account for most of the findings within the eyewitness-testimony paradigm. Despite this success, Lindsay found CHARM to be of limited usefulness as a model of eyewitness suggestibility. The reasons stated for this peculiar conclusion are discussed in this rebuttal.
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Department of Psychology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755.
D001288:Attention; D003416:Criminal Law; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013404:Suggestion