Modelling the Acitivation of Words in Human Memory: The Spreading Activation, Spooky-activation-at-a-distance and the Entanglement Models Compared
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Modelling how a word is activated in human memory is an important requirement for determining the probability of recall of a word in an extra-list cueing experiment. The spreading activation, spooky-action-at-a-distance and entanglement models have all been used to model the activation of a word. Recently a hypothesis was put forward that the mean activation levels of the respective models are as follows: Spreading ≤ Entanglment ≤ Spooking-action-at-a-distance This article investigates this hypothesis by means of a substantial empirical analysis of each model using the University of South Florida word association, rhyme and word norms.
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Modelling the acitivation of words in human memory: The Spreading Activation, Spooky-activation-at-a-distance and the Entanglment models compared
Modelling how a word is activated in human memory is an important requirement for determining the probability of recall of a word in an extra-list cueing experiment. The spreading activation, spooky-action-at-a-distance and entanglement models have all been used to model the activation of a word. Recently a hypothesis was put forward that the mean activation levels of the respective models are ...
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