On Relating the Organizational Theory of Memory to Levels of Processing: Gordon H. Bower and David J. Bryant

It is fitting in this festschrift to focus on some of the themes that guided George Mandler's memory research, and relate those themes to contemporary developments in memory theory. For these purposes, we would like to briefly review the salient themes of one of Mandler's most influential papers, "Organization and Memory." It was published in the initial volume of the new serial The Psychology of Learning and Motivation edited by Kenneth and Janet Spence (1967). By chance, Bower also had an article in this same volume, and soon assumed editorship of that series.