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Memory in Life, Lab, and Clinic: Implications for Memory Theory

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Basic and applied research on memory should and can inform each other to their mutual benefit much in the same way that laboratory and nonlaboratory studies can (see Bahrick, 1991; Tulving, 1991). Nonetheless, it is a challenge to integrate the wide-ranging contents of the presentations of this conference and to formulate implications for memory theory. Each paper contributed some interesting and unique findings and conceptual points, not all of which can be assimilated. With respect to memory theory, there were a number of themes that cut across several to most of the presentations. We begin with a consideration of those themes.

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  1. Rose T. Zacks
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  1. National Center for Health Statistics, 20782, Hyattsville, MD, USA

    Douglas J. Herrmann

  2. NIMH, 20892, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Herbert Weingartner

  3. Department of Psychology, St. Lawrence University, 13617, Canton, NY, USA

    Alan Searleman

  4. Department of Aging and Mental Health, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., 33612-3899, Tampa, FL, USA

    Cathy McEvoy

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Zacks, R.T., Hasher, L. (1992). Memory in Life, Lab, and Clinic: Implications for Memory Theory. In: Herrmann, D.J., Weingartner, H., Searleman, A., McEvoy, C. (eds) Memory Improvement. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2760-1_13

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