ABSTRACT
Specialised sessions were held on major theoretical areas such as implicit memory, working memory, and autobiographical memory, and in leading areas of applied memory research, too—symposia topics included ageing, emotion, and viral infections. The largest area of difficulty concerned access to subject populations, totalling 56 responses. The significant differences in the proportions of problems relating to subject access across the research categories. There are many problems faced by the successful memory researcher: time and money need to be found, appropriate methodologies have to be developed, equipment has to be obtained and controlled, stimuli need to be constructed. The cost of development may therefore be borne largely by pioneering experimental researchers. The “slowest” research project took 525 times longer than the “fastest” one in terms of number of hours to collect the data. There were 179 papers on memory presented at the conference, with participants drawn from wide ranges of both geographical locations and academic traditions.
