Short-term memory Beyond the modal model

@inbook{citeulike:658450, abstract = {The first chapater discussed how the STM and LTM research merged gradually in 1960s. How many memory stores/systems are there in the memory? Is there a distinction between STM and LTM? (Are they two or one?) Studies show that the evidence gives more weight to a seperation between the two systems for the following reasons: **1. Tasks (such as recency effect) show that there are two componants, one for long-term, one for more short-term store. **2. Capacity is different: LTM seems to have larger capacity than STM. **3. The coding is different between STM and LTM: STM seems to rely more on phonological coding, and LTM relies more on semantic coding. **4. Neuropsychological studies show that brain-damaged patients such as H.M. have two distinctive memory systems-he couldn't recognize people whom he just had just spent couple hours with prior to the test, but he had normal memory span. An opposite example to this is K.F., who had impaired memory digit span, but with normal long-term learning ability. Atkinson and Shffrin's model: **buffer-->STM-->LTM (modal model) But this model doesn't fit in with later findings, according to Baddeley, in the following ways: **1. long-term learning is not necessary dependant on STS than **2. If STS is damaged, supposedly you will have impaired learning. But STS defective patients still function well in terms of long-term memory learning. **3. Recency effect: (e.g. remembering digits and words at the same time doesn't impair recency effect) **4. Coding: STM codes phonological info, LTM codes semantic information. Such view is over-simplified.}, author = {Baddeley, A. }, booktitle = {Working Memory}, chapter = {1-2}, citeulike-article-id = {658450}, keywords = {memory, short-term}, posted-at = {2006-05-19 22:50:43}, priority = {2}, title = {Short-term memory Beyond the modal model} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:658450 L3 - citeulike-article-id:658450 TI - Short-term memory Beyond the modal model T2 - Working Memory N2 - The first chapater discussed how the STM and LTM research merged gradually in 1960s. How many memory stores/systems are there in the memory? Is there a distinction between STM and LTM? (Are they two or one?) Studies show that the evidence gives more weight to a seperation between the two systems for the following reasons: **1. Tasks (such as recency effect) show that there are two componants, one for long-term, one for more short-term store. **2. Capacity is different: LTM seems to have larger capacity than STM. **3. The coding is different between STM and LTM: STM seems to rely more on phonological coding, and LTM relies more on semantic coding. **4. Neuropsychological studies show that brain-damaged patients such as H.M. have two distinctive memory systems-he couldn't recognize people whom he just had just spent couple hours with prior to the test, but he had normal memory span. An opposite example to this is K.F., who had impaired memory digit span, but with normal long-term learning ability. Atkinson and Shffrin's model: **buffer-->STM-->LTM (modal model) But this model doesn't fit in with later findings, according to Baddeley, in the following ways: **1. long-term learning is not necessary dependant on STS than **2. If STS is damaged, supposedly you will have impaired learning. But STS defective patients still function well in terms of long-term memory learning. **3. Recency effect: (e.g. remembering digits and words at the same time doesn't impair recency effect) **4. Coding: STM codes phonological info, LTM codes semantic information. Such view is over-simplified. KW - memory KW - short-term AU - Baddeley, A ER -