In this study, a connectionist model for serial recall– Serial-Order in the Box (SOB)(Lewandowsky & Farrell, 2008; Oberauer, Lewandowsky, Farrell, Jarrold, & Greaves, 2012) – is extended for explaining data from short-term recognition. The main motivation behind the extension is to create a computational model which can simulate both short-term recall tasks and short-term recognition task, whic...

The size and shape of the posterior lobe of the male genital arch differs dramatically between Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana. This difference can be quantified with a morphometric descriptor (PC1) based on elliptical Fourier and principal components analyses. The genetic basis of the interspecific difference in PC1 was investigated by the application of quantitative trait locus (QTL) ma...

In the temporal context model (TCM), the current state of context is used as a cue for episodic recall. Farrell & Lewandowsky (in press) argue that the lag-CRP should be examined over a much wider range of lags than have previously been considered. Farrell and Lewandowsky (in press) show that TCM predicts a characteristic change in the shape of the conditional response probability as a function...

Minda and Ross (2004) described two experiments where subjects simultaneously learned both a category and a function. They showed that when both tasks were performed in parallel on the same stimuli, the inductive bias on the categorization task–to focus on a single attribute–spread to the function learning task. Here, we present a new computational model of this phenomenon, using the ALCOVE mod...

In function learning, people learn to predict a continuous outcome from continuous cues. In category learning, people learn to predict a nominal outcome. The present research demonstrates that two complementary forms of cue competition, previously found in category learning, also occur in function learning. One form of cue competition is blocking of learning about a redundant cue (Kamin, 1968)....

Many formal models of short-term memory have recently been proposed (e.g. Anderson & Matessa, 1997; Brown, Preece, & Hulme, in press; Burgess & Hitch, 1992; Henson, 1998; Lee & Estes, 1981; Lewandowsky & Murdock, 1989; Murdock, 1995; Nairne, Neath, Serra, & Byun, 1997; Neath, 1993; Page & Norris, 1998). An important issue addressed by these models is the problem of serial order: that is, how pe...