{"pk":31700,"title":"A Psychometric PDP Model of Temporal Structure in Story Recall","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A new parallel distributed processing (PDP) model\npossessing a statistical interpretation is proposed for ex-\ntracting critical psychological regularities from the tem-\nporal structure of human free recall data. The model is\nessentially a non-linear five parameter Jordan sequen-\ntial network for predicting categorical time-series data.\nT h e model consists of five parameters: an episodic\nstrength parameter (t/), a causal strength parameter {0),\na shared causal/episodic strength parameter (7), a work-\ning memory span parameter (//), and a number of items\nrecalled parameter (A). T h e \"psychological validity\" of\nthe model's parameter estimates were then evaluated\nwith respect to the existing experimental literature us-\ning children and adult free recall data from four stories.\nThe model's parameter estimates replicated and ex-\ntended several previously known experimental findings.\nIn particular, the model showed: (i) effects of causal\nstructure /3, (ii) showed a decrease in (7/4-7) while /?\nremained constant as retention interval increased, and\n(iii) an increase in {r]+y) whileftremained constant as\nsubject age increased.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64r4q363","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Golden","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Texas","department":""},{"first_name":"Sandra","middle_name":"F.","last_name":"Golden","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Texas","department":""},{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"","last_name":"Strickland","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Texas","department":""},{"first_name":"Inah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Choi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Texas","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31700/galley/22768/download/"}]}