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Exploration and exploitation in memory search across the lifespan

Hills, Thomas T. and Mata, Rui and Wilke, Andreas and Samanez-Larkin, Gregory R.. (2011) Exploration and exploitation in memory search across the lifespan. In: Expanding the space of cognitive science: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 33. Austin, TX, USA, pp. 991-996.

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Abstract

We used a formal model of memory (Raaijmakers & Shiffrin, 1981) to model semantic search processes of adults aged between 29 to 99 years of age in the animal naming task (“name all the animals you can”; Thurstone, 1938). Overall, our results support the idea that people switch between global frequency-based retrieval cues and local item-based retrieval cues to navigate their semantic memory. We extend this work by showing the involvement of an executive attention process, as switching is inversely correlated with digit span. Furthermore, our results reveal a further independent effect of aging, associated with increased switching between global and local memory cues for older individuals. These results are consistent with models of working memory and executive processing as representing a measure of goal perseveration and the ability to inhibit distracting information (Kane & Engle, 2004; Hills et al., 2010).
Faculties and Departments:07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Society & Choice > Cognitive and Decision Sciences (Mata)
UniBasel Contributors:Mata, Rui
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item, refereed
Conference or workshop item Subtype:Conference Paper
Publisher:Cognitive Science Society
e-ISBN:978-0-9768318-7-7
e-ISSN:1069-7977
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Conference paper
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Deposited On:23 Aug 2021 14:30

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