{"pk":25652,"title":"An ACT-R Model of the Choose-Short Effect in Time and Length","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Duration of an event tends to be underestimated as it becomes\ntemporally distant (Spetch & Wilkie, 1983). The current study\ninvestigated this so-called choose-short effect in time and\nlength in order to reevaluate the claim that the choose-short\neffect is special to temporal memory (Wearden, Parry, &\nStamp, 2002). Participants made discrimination judgments in\ntime or length on a pair of line stimuli separated by a delay.\nThe stimulus presented during delay was varied in time or\nlength. A length manipulation intended to be an analogue of\ntemporal delay induced the choose-short effect in length\ndiscrimination. We developed a computational model based\non ACT-R memory mechanisms (Anderson et al., 2004) to\naccount for the main results in both time and length. The\ncurrent results indicate that domain-general memory\nprinciples could account for the seemingly unique temporal\nphenomenon.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"temporal memory; ACT-R cognitive architecture"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9674b6nk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jung","middle_name":"Aa","last_name":"Moon","name_suffix":"","institution":"Educational Testing Service","department":""},{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"R","last_name":"Anderson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25652/galley/15276/download/"}]}