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A Brief Review of Memory Research in Cognitive Neuroscience
Deniz Yuret
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
545 Technology Square, Room 815
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
e-mail: deniz@mit.edu
Abstract:
I would have liked to start this paper by first presenting a
coherent model of human memory. After describing the functional components of
the model and the structural components of the model, I would review the
studies that provide evidence for each component and the interrelations between
the components. After several sleepless nights, I gave up on this dream. And
I decided that it was not my fault. The main reason why it is not my fault is
that if such a coherent model was deducible from the data collected so far, one
of the many intelligent people who devoted life times on this ideal would have
come up with it. Unfortunately the data is sketchy. It highlights a few pieces
here, and a few pieces there. Not only are the connections between different
findings poorly understood, in most cases the interpretation of a single
finding is still under debate. Given this picture, my review could mirror
nothing but the sketchy character of the available data.
Deniz Yuret
Wed Sep 20 17:47:02 EDT 1995