Running memory span: A comparison of behavioral capacity limits with those of an attractor neural network

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-171

  Weems, Scott A ^a   Winder, Ransom K ^a,b   Bunting, Michael ^a   Reggia, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor neural network; Computational model; Running span; Short term memory; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTOR NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; RUNNING SPAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 60649121718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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