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Title:
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A Computational Model of Routine Procedural Memory |
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Author:
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Tamborello, Franklin Patrick II |
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Advisor:
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Byrne, Michael D. |
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Abstract:
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Cooper and Shallice (2000) implemented a computational version of the Norman and Shallice’s (1986) Contention Scheduling Model (CSM). The CSM is a hierarchically organized network of action schemas and goals. Botvinick and Plaut (2004) instead took a connectionist approach to modeling routine procedural behavior. They argued in favor of holistic, distributed representation of learned step co-occurrence associations. Two experiments found that people can adapt routine procedural behavior to changing circumstances quite readily and that other factors besides statistical co-occurrence can have influence on action selection. A CSM-inspired ACT-R model of the two experiments is the first to postdict differential error rates across multiple between-subjects conditions and trial types. Results from the behavioral and modeling studies favor a CSM-like theory of human routine procedural memory that uses discrete, hierarchically-organized goal and action representations that are adaptable to new but similar procedures. |
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Citation:
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Tamborello, Franklin Patrick II. "A Computational Model of Routine Procedural Memory." Doctoral Thesis, Rice University, ETD http://hdl.handle.net/1911/21956. |
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Citable link to this page:
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http://hdl.handle.net/1911/21956 |
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Date:
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2009 |
