Nevertheless, although the findings from this study are readily explained by the episodic retrieval view, they do not invalidate a short term feature weighting mechanism.
For example, Lamy et al. (2011) found that the critical interaction effects that gave rise to the episodic retrieval view were only found when the task was difficult.
The findings from Experiment 1B correspond to the prediction from SAM (Fig. 1A), strongly suggesting that memory retrieval affected search as proposed by the episodic retrieval view.
Using two computational models we derived differing predictions: only the episodic retrieval view predicts that when one target feature occurs more frequently for a number of trials, this can result in long lasting facilitation of this feature that persists throughout the experiment.
In this view, episodic information could be only partially integrated and, consequently, visual and semantic information might overwhelm sensorimotor signals, leading to a substantial similarity between enacted and observed actions.
In contrast to the independent feature weighting view, the episodic retrieval account assumes that every trial is stored as a bound episodic memory, and that automatic retrieval of these memories affects performance on the current trial.
In this view, the episodic buffer may act as an intermediate store between short-term maintenance and long-term storage.
From a developmental and genetic point of view, visual episodic memory could be underlain by neural systems that have more plasticity than other cognitive regions.
At the same time, the finding that these regions show more activity during successful retrieval is in line with the view that episodic retrieval constitutes a prominent part of the default mode [6], [26].
Hence him trying his hand at episodic television, which he views as the only plane of modern entertainment where character studies about social misfits can still be told.
