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

Arthur M. Glenberg

doi:10.1017/S0140525X97470012

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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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