An Evidence-Based Evaluation of a Hierarchical Model of Memory

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Medicine - Neurology, Psychiatry, Addiction, grade: 4.0, The University of Texas at Dallas (School of Brain and Behavioral Sciences), course: MS Applied Cognition and Neuroscience, language: English, abstract: Human memory is complex and multi-‐faceted with blurred boundaries shared with perception, thought, attention, control and consciousness. Many models of memory have been proposed over the years that attempt to address the systems, processes and mechanisms of memory. In this paper a hierarchical model of memory is discussed and is evaluated against its predictions in the face of experimental evidence in episodic, semantic, and implicit memory research from the fields of experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience and animal neuroscience.