ABSTRACT
The first International Practical Aspects of Memory Conference was held in Wales in 1978 and the second in 1987. Those conferences were well attended and made evident the lively interest in ecologically valid and applied memory research. The proceedings of those conferences gave a “state of the art account of current research and issues in the field of applied memory” (Gruneberg, Morris, & Sykes, 1988). The success of those conferences, coupled with a continued upsurge in interest in applied memory issues, caused the organizers to decide not to wait a decade until the next conference, and the third conference was held in 1994. Because the first two conferences were held on the east side of the Atlantic, it was decided to hold the next conference on the west side—at the University of Maryland University College. This volume presents the major papers of the conference that examined broad issues concerning basic and applied memory research.
