Follow-Up - The Impact of Cognitive Theory on Human and Computer Development - page 66

necessary to understand the nature of storage before understanding the computations that
underlie language, mental imagery, movement control, and decision making, all of which
rely on the storage system to support their function.
The Application component did not include a discussion of the numerous psychological
theories and data amassed by memory researchers, although it did include a list of sug-
gested readings. To explain the data (including item data: thresholds, strengths, attributes;
association data: forgetting functions, confidence judgments, repetition effects, symmetry;
serial order, retroactive and proactive inhibitions, distinctiveness, capacity limitations,
chunking and as may be recalled (Morville 2005).
Berk (2004) expressed that it is approximately correct to think of a computer storage
system as a collection of registers together with their control circuitry. An N -word storage
system, for example, consists of an N register, together with the circuitry necessary for dis-
tributing or disseminating information to the end user during storage and gathering inform-
ation from them during recall. Lessig (2002) historically commented on each register that
together with its control circuitry has been called a memory location. Wozniak and Smith
(2006) purported that each register is connected to an internal output bus through a set of
switches inside the register, and each register receives inputs from an internal input bus.
Miller and Rollnick (2002) stated that correspondence exists between input bus wires and
output bus wires that generate computational complexity in the same manner that the hu-
man system is connected to produce critical processes and computational complexity, espe-
cially the human cognitive system functionality. In conclusion, man created the computer
as a result of his critical thinking complexity in the process of information dissemination.