ABSTRACT
How can we determine the processing demands of different component processes involved in remembering? This is a huge question, but certainly one that is critical to address in developing a full understanding of memory. It has long been one of the central questions motivating the research of Fergus Craik, so it is fitting that the three preceding chapters by his frequent collaborators take on one central aspect of this question: How do resource demands, in the form of attentional requirements, influence encoding versus retrieval? The answer offered in all three chapters is that resource demands ordinarily are considerably greater at encoding than at retrieval, but that the picture is not simple and that the exceptions are particularly informative.
