About this Research Topic
The main idea of this Research Topic is to continue and help accelerate this ongoing endeavor bringing together researchers from various communities which have their eyes pointed towards the same object of study but from different viewpoints. It is only in such a way that depth can be perceived, allowing, we believe, the big picture to emerge. Therefore, we are expecting papers from a wide range of domains using a variety of methods such as behavioral studies, computational modeling, and physiological imaging. This Research Topic does not target one population in particular since these psychological constructs can be observed in all-comers, in experts, in patients with neurological or psychiatric disorders such as autism or schizophrenia, or even in animals. Papers allowing an historical perspective are also welcome.
The only requirement is that all papers need to be centered on the concepts of chunks or/and retrieval structures. A chunk can be defined as a collection of separate constituents being linked together in order to be processed as one element. Each constituent has strong associations within its chunk and weak with other chunks. The perspective is twofold: 1) perceptual, allowing for instance automatic grouping processes to occur or 2) conceptual, to refer to a more conventional notion of chunking. Concerning retrieval structures, they can be envisaged in two ways: 1) as a set of long-term memory cues used to encode and retrieve reliably information from memory and/or 2) as templates, that is, schemas with slots that can be filled with variable information, including chunks.
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