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What memory is for: Creating meaning in the service of action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Arthur M. Glenberg
Arthur M. Glenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 glenberg@facstaff.wisc.edu
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Abstract

I address the commentators' calls for clarification of theoretical terms, discussion of similarities to other proposals, and extension of the ideas. In doing so, I keep the focus on the purpose of memory: enabling the organism to make sense of its environment so that it can take action appropriate to constraints resulting from the physical, personal, social, and cultural situations.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 41 - 50
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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