(6)   TI: MEMORY IN THE WORK OF BINET,ALFRED (1857-1911)
      LA: French
      AU: NICOLAS_S
      NA: UNIV PARIS 05,PSYCHOL EXPTL LAB,CNRS,URA 316,EPHE,28 RUE 
          SERPENIE,F-75270 PARIS 06,FRANCE
      JN: ANNEE PSYCHOLOGIQUE 1994 Vol.94 No.2 pp.257-282
      DT: Note
      AB: If Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is famous as the author of the IQ 
          test that bears his name, he is almost unknown, however, as the 
          psychological investigator who generated original experiments and 
          fascinating results in the field of memory. As Hermann 
          Ebbinghaus, Binet was a pioneer in this domain of research. This 
          article reviews in a diachronic perspective Binet's major 
          contributions on memory: mnemonic virtuosity, visual and auditory 
          memories, and influences of suggestibility on memory. The first 
          contribution to the understanding of memory came from Binet's 
          study of the role of this faculty in expert mental calculators 
          (Inaudi and Diamandi) and in expert blindfold chess players. The 
          second original contribution was his examination of children's 
          visual memory for lines and auditory memory for words and prose 
          (memory for ideas). The third original contribution was the 
          pioneering work of Alfred Binet on eyewitness testimony. Although 
          all these contributions are not often cited today in the 
          psychological literature, we show that Binet's conclusions made 
          nearly 100 years ago are mirrored in modern conceptualizations of 
          memory and are still informative today.
      WA: MEMORY, BINET, HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY