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The correspondence metaphor: Prescriptive or descriptive?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Darryl Bruce
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaB3H 3C3. dbruce@husky1.stmarys.ca

Abstract

Koriat & Goldsmith's abstract correspondence metaphor is unlikely to prove useful to memory science. It aims to motivate and inform the investigation of everyday memory, but that movement has prospered without it. The irrelevance of its competitor – the more concrete storehouse metaphor – as a guiding force in memory research presages a similar fate for the correspondence perspective.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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