The Relationship Between Voluntary and Involuntary Memory in Recognition and Recall

This article represents the continuation of a long and fruitful line of research begun more than forty years ago by A. A. Smirnov and his colleague P. I. Zinchenko. A major point made in this work is that remembering depends critically on the activities the subject engages in both at the time he is exposed to the materials and at the time memory is assessed.