Najenson, Jonathan (2022) Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory. [Preprint]
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Abstract
According to a standard view in psychology and neuroscience, there are multiple memory systems in the brain. Philosophers and scientists of memory rely on the idea that there are multiple memory systems in the brain to infer that procedural memory is not a cognitive form of memory. As a result, memory is considered to be a disunified capacity. In this paper, I evaluate two criteria used by Michaelian to demarcate between cognitive and non-cognitive memory systems: appeal to stored content and retrieval flexibility. By considering several empirical cases I argue that the criteria offered ultimately fail to distinguish between memory systems. The procedural memory system is neither contentless nor inflexible.
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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Keywords: | Memory; Memory Systems; Procedural Memory; Content; Flexibility | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Learning and Memory Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Systems Neuroscience |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Jonathan Najenson | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2022 03:10 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2022 03:10 | ||||||
Item ID: | 21061 | ||||||
DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1086/715448 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Learning and Memory Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Systems Neuroscience |
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Date: | 2022 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21061 |
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