Perhaps, short-term memory involves storing perceptual features, and memories are linked feature sets {featural model}. Features are about stimulus intensity, location, time, frequency, and quality and about higher-level stimulus combinations. Sense-input memories have features about sense mode and stimuli. Memories of thoughts and memory rehearsal have higher-level stimulus combinations and few modal features. The featural model does not use associations among features.
probability
Features have values or probabilities. Excitations and inhibitions during memory formation depend on reinforcement pathways and change feature probabilities.
recall
Recall involves selection among alternatives by feature probability. Mind compares cues, which can generate secondary cues, to features. If match is above threshold, mind recalls object or word {reintegration}. Recall takes one step. If new memory has same feature value as existing memory, new-memory feature value replaces previous-item feature value, and previous-item memory degrades.
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