Richard Shiffrin | |
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Born |
New Haven, Connecticut |
March 13, 1942
Fields | Cognitive science |
Institutions | Indiana University |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Known for | Empirical, theoretical, and computational work in the modeling of human cognition |
Notable awards |
1995 Fellow of the National Academy of Science 1996 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996 Fellow of the American Psychological Society 2002 Rumelhart Prize 2005 Fellow of the American Philosophical Society |
Spouse | Judith Mahy |
Children | 4 |
1995 Fellow of the National Academy of Science
1996 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1996 Fellow of the American Psychological Society
2002 Rumelhart Prize
Richard Shiffrin (born March 13, 1942) is the Luther Dana Waterman Professor of cognitive science for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. Shiffrin has contributed a number of theories of attention and memory to the field of psychology. He co-authored the Atkinson–Shiffrin model of memory in 1968 with Richard Atkinson, who was his academic adviser at the time. In 1977, he published a theory of attention with Walter Schneider. With Jeroen G.W. Raaijmakers in 1980, Shiffrin published the Search of Associative Memory (SAM) model, which has served as the standard model of recall for cognitive psychologists well into the 2000s. He extended the SAM model with the Retrieving Effectively From Memory (REM) model in 1997 with Mark Steyvers.
Shiffrin proposed a mathematical model of memory with Richard C. Atkinson in 1968 while at Stanford University. This laid out components of short and long term memory and processes that control the operations of memory. The Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model showed the importance and possibility of modeling the control processes of cognition, and remains one of the most highly cited in the entire field of psychology