1. James, W. The Principles of Psychology (Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1890).Although an older text, this classic is still the seminal text of psychology and should be read. Chapters 16 on memory and 18 on imagination set the foundation for the modern cognitive neuroscience of remembering.
2. Johnson, M. K. MEM: mechanisms of recollection. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 4, 268–280 (1992).
3. Rugg, M. D. & Wilding, E. L. Retrieval processing and episodic memory. Trends Cogn. Sci. 4, 108–115 (2000).
4. Tulving, E. Elements of Episodic Memory (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1983).A comprehensive cognitive framework for understanding processes that are associated with remembering.
5. Gillund, G. & Shiffrin, R. M. A retrieval model for both recognition and recall. Psychol. Rev. 91, 1–67 (1984).