ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the challenges that arose and brief discussions of the current models, along with a prospective for unifying the various memory tasks. The logic of the task comparison is that effects that persist across tasks may be more relevant to episodic memory as a whole. Recognition memory often appeals to researchers due to the simplicity of the task. There are a number of methodological differences between the tasks such as tasks tend to employ short lists of items whereas recognition memory tasks tend to employ relatively long lists. Finally, the chapter explains that long distance associations can also support serial recall, although new assumptions about how retrieval operates are required to address data that are challenging for models that employ inter-item associations. A unified model such as the one it proposes would be useful for psychometric applications.
