Richard Shiffrin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Shiffrin

American cognitive scientist

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1942

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Profession: university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Richard Shiffrin (born March 13, 1942) is professor of cognitive science in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Shiffrin has contributed a number of theories of attention and memory to the field of psychology.
He co-authored the Atkinson–Shiffrin model of memory in 1968 with Richard Atkinson, who was his academic adviser at the time.
In 1977, he published a theory of attention with Walter Schneider.
With Jeroen G.W.
Raaijmakers in 1980, Shiffrin published the Search of Associative Memory (SAM) model, which has served as the standard model of recall for cognitive psychologists well into the 2000s.
He extended the SAM model with the Retrieving Effectively From Memory (REM) model in 1997 with Mark Steyvers.