ABSTRACT

Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT) concerns the interface between memory processes and higher reasoning operations in adults and the developmental relations between memory and reasoning: Memory is the bridge between the domains and the memory-reasoning interface is a promising place to initiate integrative theorizing. The research program on this focus consists of three categories of studies: First, studies that revolve around on-line or developmental relations between memory content and reasoning accuracy; second, those concerned with reasoning per se; and third, those concerned with memory per se, especially aspects of memory that savor of reasoning and inference. In this chapter, I sketch contributions that fall in the last category. The other two categories figure in the companion chapter by Reyna (Chap. 11).