ABSTRACT
In reviewing research on memory in the real world, this book has included a wide range of different memory functions and has tended to treat them as separate subsystems. Nevertheless human memory is, at some level, a joined-up system and this chapter is an attempt to do some joining up and try to see the big picture. It is a dif®cult task, though, from such a diverse collection of ®ndings and observations, to formulate any general conclusions or to incorporate them into a general model of memory. Some researchers, such as Tulving, have concluded that there is no single entity corresponding to ``memory'', but rather that memory consists of:
a number of different brain behaviour/cognition systems and processes that, through co-operation and interaction with one another, make it possible for their possessor to bene®t from past experience and thereby promote survival.
