{"pk":27750,"title":"What's in an Association? The Relationship Between Similarity and Episodic Memory for Associations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"When two events occur closely in time, an “association” exists\nbetween memories for those events. When a pair of associ-\nated events is semantically similar, it is easier to recognize the\ncomplete pair and easier to tell the complete pair apart from\npairs of events that did not co-occur; there is also, however, a\nbias to report that similar events had co-occurred, even when\nthey had not. A new experiment shows that these phenomena\noccur whenever two events share features, whether those fea-\ntures are perceptual or conceptual in nature and whether the\nevents themselves are verbal or non-verbal. We present a dy-\nnamic model for storage and recognition of associations that\nshows how all these results can be explained by the princi-\nple that shared features lead to correlated processing of similar\nevents, which in turn increases capacity to process associative\ninformation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"memory"},{"word":"Associative recognition"},{"word":"Similarity"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r78h4p2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gregory","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Cox","name_suffix":"","institution":"Syracuse University","department":""},{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"H","last_name":"Criss","name_suffix":"","institution":"Syracuse University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27750/galley/17390/download/"}]}