This digital event coincided with the publication of a special issue of Memory & Cognition that celebrated the impact on cognitive science of a paper published by Richard C. Atkinson and Richard M. Shiffrin in 1967. The paper reported the results of several years of research, and was entitled Human Memory: A Proposed System and its Control Processes. It has been cited more than 10,000 times, and the posts for this digital event explore some of the many ways in which the paper has influenced the field.

The event consists of the following posts:

• Stephan Lewandowsky provides some historical context for the paper.
• Ken Malmberg and Rich Shiffrin, the guest editors of the special issue, review the principal contributions of the Atkinson and Shiffrin paper.
• David Kellen provides an in-depth look into some aspects of Atkinson and Shiffrin that are still remarkably current.
• Candice Morey differentiates between different approaches to memory and concludes that we should not settle for being approximately right.
• Lisa Fazio focuses on the control processes of memory and when taking control does (and does not) improve memory.
• Diane Pecher draws a connection between laboratory research and computational models and problems with memory in everyday life.
• Stephan Lewandowsky’s concluding post points to the Springer landing page for the special issue and provides the table of contents.