ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we examine the memorial processes assumed to operate within the sensory-perceptual division of the IPM. Using the same basic approach taken in Chapter 6, we make a few basic assumptions and see how far they and their direct implications can carry us. In so doing, we draw upon the three stimulus analyzing processes that were first discussed in Section II, namely, precision encoding, analogical encoding, and the match-mismatch retrieval process. In addition, two additional processes are included in the theoretical analysis: unrestricted memory formation and indirect activation/inhibition. As in Chapter 6, only a limited amount of empirical data will be presented in this chapter. Such research will be intensively analyzed in the remaining chapters of the book.