Foundation Of Memory Research Articles

A Case-Based Design Browser to Facilitate Reuse of Software Artifacts

Large corporations and government agencies often incur unnecessary costs and errors in conceptual software design due to the lack of an ‘institutional memory’ and the specialization of systems. A design browser is introduced as the foundation of an institutional memory to support software reuse. The Design Browser is a combination of an artificial intelligence paradigm known as case-based reasoning and a conceptual framework that presents developers a unified structure through which to understand, compare, and contrast related design experience. The case-based system contains design information about various existing software designs. The conceptual framework provides software developers with a common vocabulary and a frame of reference in which to view the existing software. The Design Browser and empirical results of its evaluation are presented.

Exploring the ecological foundations of memory in psychotherapy: Interpersonal affordance, perception, and recollection in real time

Recent evidence suggests that memory narratives are fallible cognitive and social constructions. Yet, the literature lacks specific frameworks for guiding clinicians' inquiry into such narratives. We propose one such framework that focuses on interpersonal memories. The model, which is based on Gibson's Theory of Perception as applied to the interpersonal domain, seeks a detailed database from which higher level clinical inferences can be derived. Case material is used to illustrate its application. The model is discussed in relation to recent research and controversy about psychotherapeutic memory, and a stance clinicians might take toward memory phenomena.

Large‐scale neurocognitive networks and distributed processing for attention, language, and memory

Cognition and comportment are subserved by interconnected neural networks that allow high-level computational architectures including parallel distributed processing. Cognitive problems are not resolved by a sequential and hierarchical progression toward predetermined goals but instead by a simultaneous and interactive consideration of multiple possibilities and constraints until a satisfactory fit is achieved. The resultant texture of mental activity is characterized by almost infinite richness and flexibility. According to this model, complex behavior is mapped at the level of multifocal neural systems rather than specific anatomical sites, giving rise to brain-behavior relationships that are both localized and distributed. Each network contains anatomically addressed channels for transferring information content and chemically addressed pathways for modulating behavioral tone. This approach provides a blueprint for reexploring the neurological foundations of attention, language, memory, and frontal lobe function.

Review of Foundations of learning and memory.

Review of Foundations of learning and memory.