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Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions
2002
Psychological review
Memory evolved to supply useful, timely information to the organism's decision-making systems. Therefore, decision rules, multiple memory systems, and the search engines that link them should have coevolved to mesh in a coadapted, functionally interlocking way. This adaptationist perspective suggested the scope hypothesis: When a generalization is retrieved from semantic memory, episodic memories that are inconsistent with it should be retrieved in tandem to place boundary conditions on the
doi:10.1037/0033-295x.109.2.306
pmid:11990320
fatcat:ksmce5h74fes3jkhipxzqc3d4u