Sins of Memory

Chris Chatham at Develintel takes a look at Daniel Schachter's "Seven Sins of Memory" and decides to clarify and simplify the picture. For anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of cognitive science, Chris' series on memory this week is worth a look.

• Seven Sins of Memory
• Transience of Memory
• Memory Search Failures
• Failures of Memory Architecture
• Failures of Monitoring

A good scientist will keep working at a topic until he is satisfied that he understands it in as basic a manner as possible. Chris has an aptitude for seeking parsimonious explanations for cognitive phenomena. That is one reason I keep going back to Develintel.