ABSTRACT
The influence of the Atkinson-Shiffrin (1968) model is far-reaching to the point that one current memory textbook refers to it as the "modal model" (Schwartz & Reisberg, 1991). The Atkinson-Shiffrin chapter focussed on cued and free recall, proposing a serial search as the control process underlying retrieval in these tasks. However, in a last section on "Further considerations..." they previewed what has become one of the most central controversies regarding models of recognition memory.
