title: Scale-invariant and locally distinctive memory: the SIMPLE approach.
abstract: A long-standing controversy in cognitive psychology concerns the need to assume short- and long-term memory stores. A new formal model of scale-invariant memory and perceptual identification, SIMPLE, accounts for a wide range of data over short and long time scales using the same basic retrieval principles. SIMPLE assumes a single store in which the distinctiveness of each memory item is calculated relative to other items presented across the same scale.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Winchester, West Hill, Winchester SO22 4NR, UK. alistair.harvey@winchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Alistair J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Harvey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008960:Models, Psychological