Bridging the Gap: Transitive Associations Between Items Presented in Similar Temporal Contexts

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 391-407

  Howard, Marc W ^a   Jing, Bing ^a   Rao, Vinayak A ^a   Provyn, Jennifer P ^a   Datey, Aditya V ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contiguity effect; episodic memory; mathematical models of memory; semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 65349094726     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015002     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Atkinson R.C., and Shiffrin R.M. Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes. In: Spence K.W., and Spence J.T. (Eds). The psychology of learning and motivation 2 (1968), Academic Press, New York 89-105
2. Bunsey M., and Eichenbaum H.B. Conservation of hippocampal memory function in rats and humans. Nature 379 (1996, January 18) 255-257
3. Burgess N. The hippocampus, space, and viewpoints in episodic memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 55 (2002) 1057-1080
4. Burgess N., Maguire E.A., and O'Keefe J. The human hippocampus and spatial and episodic memory. Neuron 35 (2002) 625-641
5. Caplan J.B. Associative isolation: Unifying associative and order paradigms. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 49 (2005) 383-402
6. Caplan J.B., Glaholt M.G., and McIntosh A.R. Linking associative and serial list memory: Pairs versus triples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 32 (2006) 1244-1265
7. Chappell M., and Humphreys M. An autoassociative neural network for sparse representations: Analysis and application to models of recognition and cued recall. Psychological Review 101 (1994) 103-128
8. Cole R.P., Barnet R.C., and Miller R.R. Temporal encoding in trace conditioning. Animal Learning & Behavior 23 (1995) 144-153
9. Dennis S. An unsupervised method for the extraction of propositional information from text. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101 (2004) 5206-5213
10. Dennis S. A memory-based theory of verbal cognition. Cognitive Science 29 (2005) 145-193
11. Dusek J.A., and Eichenbaum H. The hippocampus and memory for orderly stimulus relations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 94 (1997) 7109-7114
12. Eichenbaum H. The hippocampus and declarative memory: Cognitive mechanisms and neural codes. Behavioral Brain Research 127 (2001) 199-207
13. Farrell S., and Lewandowsky S. Empirical and theoretical limits on lag-recency in free recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 15 (2008) 1236-1250
14. Friendly M., Franklin P.E., Hoffman D., and Rubin D.C. The Toronto Word Pool: Norms for imagery, concreteness, orthographic variables, and grammatical usage for 1,080 words. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation 14 (1982) 375-399
15. Gallistel C.R., and Gibbon J. Time, rate, and conditioning. Psychological Review 107 (2000) 289-344
16. Griffiths T., and Steyvers M. A probabilistic approach to semantic representation. In: Gray W., and Schunn C. (Eds). Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2002), Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX 381-386
17. Griffiths T., and Steyvers M. Prediction and semantic association. In: Becker S.T.S., and Obermayer K. (Eds). Advances in neural information processing systems 15 (2003), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 11-15
18. Howard M.W., Addis K.A., Jing B., and Kahana M. Semantic structure and episodic memory. In: Landauer T.K., McNamara D.S., Dennis S., and Kintsch W. (Eds). LSA: A road towards meaning (2007), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 121-141
19. Howard M.W., Fotedar M.S., Datey A.V., and Hasselmo M.E. The temporal context model in spatial navigation and relational learning: Toward a common explanation of medial temporal lobe function across domains. Psychological Review 112 (2005) 75-116
20. Howard M.W., and Kahana M.J. Contextual variability and serial position effects in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 25 (1999) 923-941
21. Howard M.W., and Kahana M.J. A distributed representation of temporal context. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 46 (2002) 269-299
22. Howard M.W., Kahana M.J., and Wingfield A. Aging and contextual binding: Modeling recency and lag-recency effects with the temporal context model. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 13 (2006) 439-445
23. Howard M.W., Sederberg P.B., and Kahana M.J. Reply to Farrell & Lewandowsky: Changes in the shape of the lag-CRP predicted by TCM due to recency. Psychological Review 115 (2008) 1125-1126
24. Hull C.L. The problem of primary stimulus generalization. Psychological Review 54 (1947) 120-134
25. Humphreys M.S., Bain J.D., and Pike R. Different ways to cue a coherent memory system: A theory for episodic, semantic, and procedural tasks. Psychological Review 96 (1989) 208-233
26. Jensen O., and Lisman J.E. Hippocampal sequence-encoding driven by a cortical multi-item working memory buffer. Trends in Neuroscience 28 2 (2005) 67-72
27. Jones M.N., and Mewhort D.J.K. Representing word meaning and order information composite holographic lexicon. Psychological Review 114 (2007) 1-32
28. Kahana M.J. Associative retrieval processes in free recall. Memory & Cognition 24 (1996) 103-109
29. Kahana M.J. Associative symmetry and memory theory. Memory & Cognition 30 (2002) 823-840
30. Kahana M.J., Howard M., and Polyn S. Associative processes in episodic memory. In: Roediger III H.L. (Ed). Cognitive psychology of memory: Vol. 2. A comprehensive reference (2008), Elsevier, Oxford, England 476-490
31. Kahana M.J., Howard M.W., Zaromb F., and Wingfield A. Age dissociates recency and lag-recency effects in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 28 (2002) 530-540
32. Klein K.A., Addis K.M., and Kahana M.J. A comparative analysis of serial and free recall. Memory & Cognition 33 (2005) 833-839
33. Landauer T.K., and Dumais S.T. Solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review 104 (1997) 211-240
34. Lewandowsky S., and Murdock B.B. Memory for serial order. Psychological Review 96 (1989) 25-57
35. Lund K., and Burgess C. Producing high-dimensional semantic spaces from lexical co-occurrence. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers 28 (1996) 203-208
36. McNeill D. A study of word association. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 5 (1966) 548-557
37. Meeter M., Myers C.E., and Gluck M.A. Integrating incremental learning and episodic memory models of the hippocampal region. Psychological Review 112 (2005) 560-585
38. Mensink G.-J.M., and Raaijmakers J.G.W. A model for interference and forgetting. Psychological Review 95 (1988) 434-455
39. Murdock B.B. A theory for the storage and retrieval of item and associative information. Psychological Review 89 (1982) 609-626
40. Nelson D.L., McKinney V.M., Gee N.R., and Janczura G.A. Interpreting the influence of implicitly activated memories on recall and recognition. Psychological Review 105 (1998) 299-324
41. Nelson D.L., Schreiber T.A., and McEvoy C.L. Processing implicit and explicit representations. Psychological Review 95 (1992) 322-348
42. Nelson K. The syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift revisited: A review of research and theory. Psychological Bulletin 84 (1977) 93-116
43. O'Keefe J., and Dostrovsky J. The hippocampus as a spatial map: Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain Research 34 (1971) 171-175
44. O'Reilly R.C., and Rudy J.W. Conjunctive representations in learning and memory: Principles of cortical and hippocampal function. Psychological Review 108 (2001) 311-345
45. Polyn, S. M., Norman, K. A., & Kahana, M. J. (in press). Episodic and semantic organization during free recall: The control of memory search. Psychological Review
46. Popper J. Mediated generalization. In: Bush R.R., and Estes W.K. (Eds). Studies in mathematical learning theory (1959), Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 94-108
47. Primoff E. Backward and forward associations as an organizing act in serial and in paired-associate learning. Journal of Psychology 5 (1938) 375-395
48. Provyn J.P., Sliwinski M.J., and Howard M.W. Effects of age on contextually mediated associations in paired associate learning. Psychology and Aging 22 (2007) 846-857
49. Raaijmakers J.G.W., and Shiffrin R.M. SAM: A theory of probabilistic search of associative memory. In: Bower G.H. (Ed). The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory 14 (1980), Academic Press, New York 207-262
50. Rao V.A., and Howard M.W. Retrieved context and the discovery of semantic structure. In: Platt J., Koller D., Singer Y., and Roweis S. (Eds). Advances in neural information processing systems 20 (2008), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
51. Rehani, M., & Caplan, J. B. (2009). The influence of associative interference on cued recall of word pairs. Manuscript submitted for publication.
52. Rizzuto D.S., and Kahana M.J. A neural network model of paired associate learning. Neural Computation 13 (2001) 1835-1852
53. Sederberg P.B., Howard M.W., and Kahana M.J. A context-based theory of recency and contiguity in free recall. Psychological Review 115 (2008) 893-912
54. Sirotin Y.B., Kimball D.R., and Kahana M.J. Going beyond a single list: Modeling the effects of prior experience on episodic free recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 12 (2005) 787-805
55. Slamecka N.J. An analysis of double-function lists. Memory & Cognition 4 (1976) 581-585
56. Smith D.M., and Mizumori S.J. Hippocampal place cells, context, and episodic memory. Hippocampus 16 (2006) 716-729
57. Steyvers M., and Tenenbaum J. The large scale structure of semantic networks: Statistical analyses and a model of semantic growth. Cognitive Science 29 (2005) 41-78
58. Tulving E. Elements of episodic memory (1983), Oxford University Press, New York
59. Tulving E. Episodic memory: From mind to brain. Annual Review of Psychology 53 (2002) 1-25
60. Usher M., and McClelland J.L. The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model. Psychological Review 108 (2001) 550-592
61. Wasserman E.A., DeVolder C.L., and Coppage D.J. Non-similarity-based conceptualization in pigeons via secondary or mediated generalization. Psychological Science 3 (1992) 374-378
62. Wilson M.A., and McNaughton B.L. Dynamics of the hippocampal ensemble code for space. Science 261 (1993, August 20) 1055-1058
63. Wu X.B., and Levy W.B. A hippocampal-like neural network model solves the transitive inference problem. In: Bower J.M. (Ed). Computational neuroscience: Trends in research (1998), Plenum Press, New York 567-572
64. Yonelinas A.P. The nature of recollection and familiarity: A review of 30 years of research. Journal of Memory and Language 46 (2002) 441-517
65. Young R.K. Paired-associate learning when the same items occur as stimuli and responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology 61 (1961) 315-318