title: Models of human memory.
abstract: The capacity to store and retrieve information is a property common to biological organisms and certain artefacts. Psychological models of human memory fall into two rival classes: a) "bionic" models which draw inspiration from the structural and functional properties of the central nervous system (computo bionic models); b) "symbolic information processing" models in which the inspiration for description and explanation of natural processes is drawn from the structural and functional properties of Von Neumann computers (computo-symbolic models).
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, Université of Grenoble II, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tiberghien
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological