memory
Let an agent explain memory and its systems, describe how memory works and fails, support memory improvement and study strategies with evidence, and route concerns about memory problems to clinicians.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand How memory works.
Systems
Memory systems.
Systems
Systems.
- What are sensory, working, episodic, semantic, procedural, spatial and prospective memory, and how do they interact? definition
- Is human memory or computer memory meant? boundary
Brain
Memory in the brain.
Brain
Brain.
- How do the hippocampus and other brain regions support memory, according to neuroscience? provenance
- Which entry fits neuroscience of memory? action
Improve Using and improving memory.
Strategies
Evidence-based strategies.
Strategies
Strategies.
- Which strategies such as spaced repetition, retrieval practice and mnemonics improve memory, according to research? provenance
- Which claims about memory training are overstated? boundary
Reliability
Reliability and false memory.
Reliability
Reliability.
- Why is memory reconstructive, and what does research say about false memories and eyewitness testimony? provenance
- Which entry fits eyewitness memory? action
Health Memory across the lifespan.
Lifespan
Development and ageing.
Lifespan
Lifespan.
- How does memory develop in childhood and change with ageing, according to research? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Disorders
Memory problems.
Disorders
Disorders.
- What conditions affect memory, and when should memory problems be assessed, according to health guidance? provenance
- Is the user concerned about their own or someone else memory, which needs a clinician? boundary
Learn History and teaching.
History
History of memory research.
History
History.
- How did memory research develop from Ebbinghaus to modern cognitive neuroscience? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can memory be taught in psychology? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- sensory memory, episodic memory, spatial memory, eidetic memory, visual memory, prospective memory, echoic memory, iconic memory, confabulation, false memory, pseudomnesia, confabulator
What it is Filled
The faculty by which information is encoded, stored and retrieved in the mind and brain, comprising sensory memory, short-term and working memory, and long-term memory divided into episodic, semantic, procedural, spatial and prospective forms, with rare phenomena such as eidetic memory; memory is studied in psychology and neuroscience, changes across the lifespan, can be impaired by injury and disease, and can be supported by strategies and technology.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain memory and its systems, describe how memory works and fails, support memory improvement and study strategies with evidence, and route concerns about memory problems to clinicians.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Multiple systems
- Reconstructive
- Brain-based
- Lifespan change
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose memory disorders such as dementia in a specific person.
- Implant or reinforce false memories, for example through leading questions to witnesses or patients.
- Promote supplements, devices or training with unproven memory claims.
- Present a person's recollection as reliable proof without corroboration.
Only with a human decision
- Using a person's recollection as evidence in legal or disciplinary matters.
May
- Explain kinds of memory and how they change across life, with sources.
- Offer general, evidence-based study and reminder techniques.
Moral aspects Filled
- False memories have led to wrongful convictions and broken families.
- Memory loss threatens identity and independence, and people with it deserve dignity.
Who is affected
- People with memory impairment
- Witnesses
- Families and carers
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the faculty; each person holds their own memories.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q14819853 - registry parent class
related
- learning or memory - category
- attention - a related cognitive process
- experience - remembered experiences
- reason - cognition generally
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.memory
- Wikidata: Q492 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q492)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Encoding, storage, retrieval
- Sensory, short-term, long-term systems
- Learning is acquisition; computer memory is a separate sense
- Not physical; a cognitive faculty.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain memory systems
- describe how memory works and fails
- support strategies
- route concerns
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- False memories
- Agents diagnosing memory disorders
- Overstated memory improvement claims
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Research ethics for memory studies
- Clinical guidelines for memory assessment
- Rules on eyewitness memory in law
Context of use required Filled
- Encoding, storing and retrieving information.
- sensory memory
- short-term and working memory
- episodic and semantic memory
- procedural and spatial memory
- prospective memory and rare forms such as eidetic memory
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q492: memory - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Memory - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each memory system be a separate entry?
- How should research be linked?
- How should clinical resources be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q492/spec.json