Short-term memory scanning viewed as exemplar-based categorization.

Short-term memory scanning viewed as exemplar-based categorization.

Exemplar-similarity models such as the exemplar-based random walk (EBRW) model (Nosofsky & Palmeri, 1997b) were designed to provide a formal account of multidimensional classification choice probabilities and response times (RTs). At the same time, a recurring theme has been to use exemplar models to account for old-new item recognition and to explain relations between classification and recogn...

Psychological Review Short-Term Memory Scanning Viewed as Exemplar-Based Categorization

Short-term memory both as working memory and as a basis for long-term memory

Exemplar-Based Random-Walk Model 1 An Exemplar-Based Random-Walk Model of Categorization and Recognition

Exemplar-Based Random-Walk Model 2 Abstract A fundamental issue in cognitive psychology and cognitive science concerns the manner in which people represent categories in memory and make decisions about category membership. In this chapter we provide a review of a process-oriented mathematical model of categorization known as the exemplar-based random-walk (EBRW) model (Nosofsky & Palmeri, 1997a...

Short-term memory as a working memory control process

Aben et al. (2012) take issue with the unthoughtful use of the terms “working memory” (WM) and “short-term memory” (STM) in the cognitive and neuroscientific literature. Whereas I agree that neuroscientists using the term WM to refer to sustained neural activation and cognitive psychologists using the terms interchangeably reflects that the field has lost control over its own dictionary, the re...