ABSTRACT
We survive and thrive by making ecient use of our knowledge. When specic prior events are relevant to current situations, aspects of those past events are retrieved and guide us through the present. Sometimes this remembering is deliberate, but oen we are reminded less by force of our own will than by the stimulus itself. Such instances of reminding reect fundamental principles of association by similarity, as noted by early theorists in psychology (James, 1890; Woodworth, 1921). Reminding is ubiquitous in higher cognition and daily life, and has found a home in theoretical developments ranging from psychology to articial intelligence.
