Memory Processing
Anthony A. Wright · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009
This chapter explores how animals remember — the processes of animal memory. It considers both active processes (for example, recollection, episodic memory, rehearsal, and familiarity criteria) and passive processes (decay, consolidation, interference, and familiarity). First, it examines what delay functions tell us about animal memory. Then, it discusses the memory processes of familiarity, recollection, episodic memory, and identity in terms of how subjects deal with proactive interference from previous trials. The chapter also looks at the changing shapes of visual and auditory serial position functions with retention delay in terms of proactive interference and retroactive interference among list items. Interference among list items was tested in monkeys' auditory list memory. Active and passive aspects of interference are discussed.