Richard Shiffrin

Richard Shiffrin
Born (1942-03-13) March 13, 1942 (age 82)
New Haven, Connecticut
Alma mater
Known forEmpirical, theoretical, and computational work in the modeling of human cognition
SpouseJudith Mahy
Children4
Awards1995  Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences

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
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive science
InstitutionsIndiana University
ThesisSearch and retrieval processes in long-term memory (1968)
Doctoral advisorRichard C. Atkinson

Richard Shiffrin (born March 13, 1942) is an American psychologist, professor of cognitive science in 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,[1] who was his academic adviser at the time. In 1977, he published a theory of attention with Walter Schneider.[2] With Jeroen G.W. Raaijmakers in 1980, Shiffrin published the Search of Associative Memory (SAM) model,[3] which has served as the standard model of recall for cognitive psychologists well into the 2000s.[4] He extended the SAM model with the Retrieving Effectively From Memory (REM) model in 1997 with Mark Steyvers.[5]

  1. ^ Atkinson, R.C. & Shiffrin, R.M. (1968) Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes. In K.W. Spence and J.T. Spence (Eds.), The psychology of learning and motivation, vol. 8. London: Academic Press.
  2. ^ Shiffrin, R. M. & Schneider, W. (1977). Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending, and a general theory. Psychological Review, 84, 127–190.
  3. ^ Raaijmakers, J. G. W. & Shiffrin, R. M. (1980). SAM: A theory of probabilistic search of associative memory. In Bower, G. H. (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 14, 207–262. New York: Academic Press.
  4. ^ "July/August – Association for Psychological Science – APS". www.psychologicalscience.org.
  5. ^ Shiffrin, R. M. & Steyvers, M. (1997). A model for recognition memory: REM: Retrieving effectively from memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 4(2), 145–166.