title: Bergson's "Matter and Memory" and modern selectionist theories of memory.
abstract: Bergson's reflections (in Matter and Memory, 1896) on memory anticipated development of modern selectionist theories of memory. Selectionist models offer new and potentially useful approaches to a theory of remembering. On the model of natural selection, these selectionist theories require at least two processing components: a device which generates a range of memory representations and a selection process which preserves a subset of those representations. Bergson shows how the subjective experience of remembering might be understood within a selectionist framework.
authors.affiliation: Vision House, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, 01876, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McNamara
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D012641:Selection, Genetic