Explore Atkinson and Shiffrin's groundbreaking 1968 three-stage memory model that describes how information flows through sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory - the most influential framework in cognitive psychology for understanding human memory processes.
Explore Rumelhart and McClelland's revolutionary Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) model that reconceptualizes memory as distributed patterns of activation across neural networks rather than stored symbols—fundamentally changing how we understand cognition and inspiring modern artificial intelligence.
Explore Craik and Lockhart's revolutionary 1972 levels-of-processing framework that challenged structural memory models and showed that how deeply information is processed determines memory retention—shifting focus from memory structures to encoding processes.
Explore Waugh and Norman's pioneering 1965 dual-store memory model that distinguished primary from secondary memory, quantified short-term storage capacity, and demonstrated that interference rather than decay causes forgetting in short-term memory.