Abstract

Memory research has served the frame work for cognitive psychology in methodological and theoretical aspects (e.g., Atkinson & Shiffrin's model, 1968). Many theories of memory have developed after the multi-score model of Atkinson & Shiffrin, in which memory is seen as a series of scores such as short-term store and long-term store or active memory and passive memory. Retrieval as a memory process also has been widely studied, and working memory model has suggested against the concept of a single short-term memory. Moreover a separate domain of research, multiple memory systems, emerged at 80's for explaining the phenomena of long-term memory, based on neuropsychological data. The theory of memory could be tested for its theoretical validity in terms of theoretical appropriateness bur also the degree of explaining neuropsychological data. The present paper provides basic accounts of memory theories with relevant neuropsychological data.