This work is a collection of theoretical statements from a broad range of memory researchers. The contributions cover a variety of topics, from implicit and explicit memory to the ecological approach to memory.

Cesare Cornoldi, Martin A. Conway, Susan E. Gathercole

An associative theory of implicit and explicit memory, G.H. Bower; encoding and retrieval processes - similarities and differences, F.I.M. Craik, M. Naveh-Benjamin, N.D. Anderson; memory imagery - a visual trace is not a mental image, C. Cornoldi, R. de Beni, F. Giusberti, M. Massironi; imaginary memories, E.F. Loftus; the rise and fall of semantic memory, J.M. Mandler; stories, selves and schemata - a review of ecological findings, U. Neisser; associative processes in false recall and false recognition, H.L. Roediger III, K.B. McDermott, K.J. Robinson; the functional imaging of recall, T. Shallice, P. Fletcher, R. Dolan; three dimensions of spatial cognition, B. Tversky. Part contents..