Open AccessThe ecological study of memory
Author(s) -
Ulric Neisser
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
philosophical transactions - royal society. biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.1997.0151
Subject(s) - presupposition , recall , cognitive science , psychology , dominance (genetics) , cognitive psychology , confabulation (neural networks) , social memory , neuroscience , cognition , epistemology , biology , philosophy , biochemistry , gene
The study of memory has long been dominated by the structural tradition, and especially by the experimental analysis of mechanisms of information processing. That dominance may soon be brought to an end by the progress of neuroscience, which offers more direct ways of studying the mechanisms in question. At that point functional issues may move to centre stage. Those issues include the act of remembering and its social functions, the skills and presuppositions of the remembered, the interaction of those skills and presuppositions with the particular material being remembered, and the determinants of accuracy and confabulation in recall.