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Model-Based Approaches to Storage and Retrieval Development

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Basic Processes in Memory Development

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As everyone knows, the distinction between processes that lead to the formation of traces, commonly called storage, and processes that permit access to such traces, commonly called retrieval, is fundamental to modern theories of memory. Students of the memory literature usually credit Melton (1963) with being the first to focus attention on the storage-retrieval distinction. Melton remarked, “What, then, are the principal issues in a theory of memory? These are about either the storage or the retrieval of traces” (1963, p. 4). Although this observation appeared more than two decades ago, it was only during the past decade that concepts of storage and retrieval replaced older associative ideas as cornerstones of memory theories.

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Brainerd, C.J. (1985). Model-Based Approaches to Storage and Retrieval Development. In: Brainerd, C.J., Pressley, M. (eds) Basic Processes in Memory Development. Springer Series in Cognitive Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9541-6_4

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