Applying an exemplar model to the artificial-grammar task: String completion and performance on individual items.
Jamieson and Mewhort (2009a) demonstrated that performance in the artificial-grammar task could be understood using an exemplar model of memory. We reinforce the position by testing the model against data for individual test items both in a standard artificial-grammar experiment and in a string-completion variant of the standard procedure. We argue that retrieval is sensitive to structure in memory. The work ties performance in the artificial-grammar task to principles of explicit memory.
Jamieson
Randall K
RK
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. randy_jamieson@umanitoba.ca
Mewhort
D J K
DJ
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