Multi store model

• The multi store model, Atkinson & Shiffrin

  Sensory register = modality-specific coding, very brief duration, high capacity, transfer to STM by attention

  Short-term memory = mainly acoustic coding, limited duration and capacity, transfer to LTM by rehearsal

  Long-term memory = mainly semantic coding, unlimited duration and capacity, created through maintenance rehearsal
• MSM evaluation

  +research shown STM and LTM use different coding and have different capacity

  -studies of amnesia (e.g. KF) show different STM’s for visual and auditory material

  -transfer to LTM more about meaningful processing than maintenance rehearsal