Primary memory is priming memory seen through the working memory viewpoint

GreySmith Institute of Advanced Studies, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.36v1
Subject Areas
Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology, Computational Science
Keywords
priming memory, primary memory, working memory, memory interface
Copyright
© 2013 Smith
Licence
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Cite this article
Smith GE. 2013. Primary memory is priming memory seen through the working memory viewpoint. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e36v1

Abstract

There are two streams of thought about memory that don't seem to jibe with each other, one thought stream works with implicit and explicit memory and one stream works with working memory. The problem is that the theories are not visible each within the other. In this article I attempt to combine the two threads of thought by pointing out a simple but overlooked identity between priming memory and primary memory, explaining why they look so different when looked at from their own particular threads of interpretation, and showing how the difference is really one of the interface between priming and working memory, not an incompatibility in design as first seems obvious.