Abstract
Editorial: Representational states in memory: where do we stand?
Highlights
One key debate in memory research centers around the problem of representation
In an effort to move toward a more unified perspective, this research topic brought together a collection of empirical, theoretical and review articles that collectively advance our understanding of representational states in memory, as well as bear the potential to reconcile some of the differences across the models
The account attempts to address the involvement of the medial temporal lobes (MTL) for the intermediate representational state, between the focus of attention (FoA) and long-term memory (LTM)
Summary
One key debate in memory research centers around the problem of representation. How is information represented in memory and how do the principles that govern memory representations change across the short and long term? One class of memory models (e.g., Baddeley and Hitch, 1974) characterized separate memory stores for information represented over the short-term from those of more permanent and durable long-term representations. More recent approaches (Cowan, 2001; Oberauer, 2002; McElree, 2006) on the other hand, have distinguished memory representations based on distinct activation levels, or states, rather than specialized stores. For decades researchers have assessed the interactions and dissociations across memory systems and representational states using behavioral investigations, seeking for the key principles that govern them.
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