ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we outline a general cognitive architecture called MEM (a Multiple-Entry, Modular memory system, Johnson, 1983; 1990; 1991a; 1991b; Johnson & Hirst, in press), discuss the relation between emotion and cognition from the perspective of MEM, and describe results of studies of memory for affect that were motivated by this framework. We think that MEM provides a coherent way of organizing a range of empirical facts about emotion and of integrating a number of theoretical ideas that have figured prominently in analyses of emotion. In addition, considering emotion in terms of MEM highlights several issues that have received relatively little attention but that could provide useful future directions for research.
