When Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin’s model was published towards the end of the 1960s I was a young research student studying short-term memory at Cambridge University. It was an enormously exciting time as so much had happened to advance our understanding of human memory in the previous 10 years or so.
The publication of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s model was important because it provided an integrated and accessible account of the most recent discoveries. It achieved this by proposing a broad framework in which memory was viewed as a set of specialised stores that could be used in different ways using transient ‘control processes’.
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