IMM: a multisystem memory model for conceptual learning

Concepts of learning and memory are closely related, and the terms often describe the same processes. Conceptual learning is known to be the process of developing abstract rules or mental constructs based on sensory experience. The Integrated Model of Mind (IMM), introduced in the present work, is a theoretical multisystem memory model that describes how concepts are formed. The IMM in its design arranges memory systems after their function in an integrated and harmonized sequence. It provides answers to some limitations of Tulving's serial-parallel-independent (SPI) model and suggests a new assumption with respect to mental representation and image schema construction through the process of encoding.
One major challenge facing memory research is to construct multisystem memory models that can describe the interaction between the different memory systems and subsystems (Eustache & Degranges, 2008). Tulving's serial-parallel-independent [...]