ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the classical theoretical distinction between long-term memory (LTM) and short-term memory (STM). It reviews the history of each of the points and to offer a theoretical framework that could potentially used to account for the many seemingly disparate findings in this area of research. Neuropsychological differentiation between STM and LTM, what these observations seem to provide is a distinction between what is and is not memory. The chapter states that a particular level of analysis of a given bit of verbal information "produces" the strength of that item's representation in memory and consequently its probability of eventual retrieval. The security of the STM-LTM dichotomy obliterated and the framework of the "Levels" proposal shaken, the foundation on which to rest an information-processing interpretation of amnesia is not as solid. Some amnesics are capable of performing within certain memory paradigms.
