Abstract from:
Chance, F. S. and Kahana, M. J. (1997) Testing the Role of Associative
Interference and Compound cues in Sequence Memory. Bower, J. ed. Computational
Neuroscience Trends in Research, 1997 (Plenum, NY).
A major problem facing computational models of human memory concerns the
storage and retrieval of sequence information. Many current models assume
a chaining of associations (i.e., each recalled item facilitates the recall
of the next item in the sequence). Despite their successes, the failure to
obtain predicted transfer from sequential to simple associative learning presents
a serious challenge to these models. We hypothesize that multiple prior
items serve as compound cues in sequential learning. A novel experimental
method for examining the role of compound cues in sequence learning is presented.
Preliminary experimental results support the compound cueing hypothesis of
sequence memory. These results are discussed in terms of the predictions
of distributed memory models.
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