Recent Design Science Research: Constructive Memory in Design Thinking

The implication of this is that memory is not laid down and fixed at the time of the original sensate experience but is somehow a function of what comes later as well. It may be viewed as follows. Sensate experience is stored as an experience. Memories are constructed initially from that experience in response to demands for a memory of that experience but the construction of the memory includes the situation pertaining at the time of the demand for the memory. The effect of this is that the memory is not just a function of the original experience it is also a function of what has happened since the original experience and of the situation which prevails when the demand for the memory is made. Each memory, after it has been constructed, is added to the experience so that the experience is augmented by memories of it. These memories require processing of the experience as opposed to factual recall of aspects of the experience. These latter we will call “fact memories” rather than just “memories”. New memories of the experience are a function of both the original experience and previous memories of it. New memories can be viewed as new interpretations of the augmented experience.