Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: Memory for order is fundamental in everyday cognition, supporting basic processes like causal inference.However, theories of order memory are narrower, if anything, than theories of memory generally.The memory-in-chains (MIC) model improves on existing theories by explaining a family of order memory effects, by explaining more processes, and by making strong predictions.This paper examines the MIC model's explanation of primacy and recency effects, and the prediction that primacy should dominate recency.This prediction is supported by existing data sets, suggesting that Estes's (1997) perturbation model, dominant among theories of order memory, is incorrect.Fits to data are presented and compared with fits of other models. 1 Executable and documented code for the model is available at http://hfac.gmu.edu/people/altmann/nairne-rpm.txt 2 I use "attention" here to mean attention to external stimuli, and will use "the focus of mental attention" to refer to ACT-R's internal goal focus.The latter maps roughly to the task-related contents of the central executive (reviewed in Baddeley, 1992).
Author: Erik M. Altmann
Institution: George Mason University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G177218894
OpenAlex ID: W2102698049