[6] Shiffrin graduated with a Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology from Stanford in 1968,[7] and joined Indiana University as faculty that same year, where he remains today as a distinguished Professor and Luther Dana Waterman Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
[9] It was a major accomplishment that the same retrieval activations that had been used in the recall model could be carried forward and used to predict a wide range of recognition phenomena.
Another major step, In 1990, Shiffrin published two articles on the list-length effect which clearly established that experience leads to the differentiation, rather than the mere strengthening, of the representations of items in memory.
[12][13] Shiffrin runs an Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference (ASIC)[14] that features talks and posters in the broad frame of Cognitive Science and related areas.
Days are free for activities, and talks/posters fall in late afternoon and evening sessions, followed by dinner.