Important peculiarities of memory

A slide from what looks like a fascinating talk by memory researcher Robert Bjork is doing the rounds on Twitter.

The talk has just happened at the Association for Psychological Science 2014 conference and it describes some ‘Important peculiarities of memory’.

You can click the link above if you want to see if the image, but as it’s a little fuzzy, I’ve reproduced Robert Bjork’s text below:
 

Important peculiarities of the human memory system

• A remarkable capacity for storing information is coupled with a highly fallible retrieval process.
• What is accessible in memory is highly dependent on the current environmental, interpersonal, emotional and body-state cues.
• Retrieving information from memory is a dynamic process that alters the subsequent state of the system.
• Access to competing memory representations regresses towards the earlier representation over time

A lovely summary of memory’s quirks.
 

Link to Robert Bjork’s staff page.
Link to APS 2014 page with videos of the keynote talks.