An Account of Associative Learning in Memory Recall.

Abstract

Associative learning is an important part of human cognition, and is thought to play key role in list learning. We present here an account of associative learning that learns asymmetric item-to-item associations, strengthening or weakening associations over time with repeated exposures. This account, combined with an existing account of activation strengthening and decay, predicts the complicated results of a multi-trial free and serial recall task, including asymmetric contiguity effects that strengthen over time (Klein, Addis, & Kahana, 2005).

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Keywords

associative learning, priming, cognitive modeling, list memory

Citation

Thomson, Robert, Aryn Pyke, Laura M. Hiatt, and J. Greg Trafton. "An Account of Associative Learning in Memory Recall." In Proceedings of the 37th Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference (2015), pp. 2386-2391.

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