Doubts about double dissociations between short- and long-term memory Export

@article{citeulike:270831, abstract = {Historically, psychologists and neuroscientists have distinguished between processes supporting memory for events across retention delays of several seconds (short-term memory, STM), and those supporting memory for events across longer retention delays of minutes or more (long-term memory, LTM). Dissociations reported in some neuropsychological studies have contributed to a popular view that there must be neurally distinct memory stores that differentially support STM and LTM. In this article, we review evidence from recent studies regarding dissociations between STM and LTM. We suggest that the evidence reveals problems with claims of selective STM or LTM impairments, which in turn questions whether theories of memory need to propose neurally distinct stores for short- and long-term retention. We consider alternative ways to explain the neural mechanisms of memory across different retention intervals.}, author = {Ranganath, Charan and Blumenfeld, Robert S.}, citeulike-article-id = {270831}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.06.009}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16002324}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16002324}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VH9-4GJM407-1/2/fc8ee027b34f351ccbba7585ae54fbb6}, doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2005.06.009}, journal = {Trends in Cognitive Sciences}, keywords = {memory, ur\_bcs\_502}, month = {August}, number = {8}, pages = {374--380}, posted-at = {2006-09-25 13:56:26}, priority = {0}, title = {Doubts about double dissociations between short- and long-term memory}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.06.009}, volume = {9}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:270831 L3 - citeulike-article-id:270831 N2 - Historically, psychologists and neuroscientists have distinguished between processes supporting memory for events across retention delays of several seconds (short-term memory, STM), and those supporting memory for events across longer retention delays of minutes or more (long-term memory, LTM). Dissociations reported in some neuropsychological studies have contributed to a popular view that there must be neurally distinct memory stores that differentially support STM and LTM. In this article, we review evidence from recent studies regarding dissociations between STM and LTM. We suggest that the evidence reveals problems with claims of selective STM or LTM impairments, which in turn questions whether theories of memory need to propose neurally distinct stores for short- and long-term retention. We consider alternative ways to explain the neural mechanisms of memory across different retention intervals. IS - 8 JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences EP - 380 TI - Doubts about double dissociations between short- and long-term memory VL - 9 SP - 374 KW - memory KW - ur_bcs_502 AU - Ranganath, Charan AU - Blumenfeld, Robert PY - 2005/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.06.009 ER -