ABSTRACT
It may seem desirable to study cognitive processes such as attention, memory, or decision making in isolation. However, we argue in this chapter that interconnections between these processes should not be ignored. First, we review ways in which decision researchers have and have not taken memory into consideration. Second, we present a complex pattern of empirical dissociations found between certain judgment and memory tasks and show how to account for these results with an elaborated version of one of a new class of process-level memory models which assume distributed representation of different types of information in a common memory store. Finally, we conclude with some general implications for future research that follow from the incorporation of memory processes into theories of decision making.
