Richard Shiffrin
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, 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.
Richard Shiffrin | |
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| Born | March 13, 1942 |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Empirical, theoretical, and computational work in the modeling of human cognition |
| Spouse | Judith Mahy |
| Children | 4 |
| Awards | 1995 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 | |
| Fields | Cognitive science |
| Institutions | Indiana University |
| Thesis | Search and retrieval processes in long-term memory (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard C. Atkinson |