Human Associative Memory

First published in 1973. This book proposes and tests a theory about human memory, about how a person encodes, retains, and retrieves information from memory. The book is especially concerned with memory for sentential materials. We propose a theoretical framework which is adequate for describing comprehension of linguistic materials, for exhibiting the internal representation of propositional materials, for characterizing the interpretative processes which encode this information into memory and make use of it for remembering, for answering questions, recognizing instances of known categories, drawing inferences, and making deductions.

John R. Anderson The University of Michigan, Gordon H. Bower Standford University

Preface, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. ASSOCIATIONISM: A HISTORICAL REVIEW, 3. RATIONALIST COUNTERTRADITIONS, 4. COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELS OF MEMORY, 5. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN LINGUISTICS, 6. AN OVERVIEW OF HAM, 7. THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE, 8. THE ENCODING PROBLEM, 9. THE RECOGNITION PROCESS, 10. MODEL FOR SENTENCE LEARNING, 11. PROPERTIES OF THE MEMORY STRUCTURE, 12. FACT RETRIEVAL, 13. QUESTION ANSWERING, 14. VERBAL LEARNING, 15. INTERFERENCE AND FORGETTING, 16. AN EPITAPH, Author Index, Subject Index