Retrieval and Judgment Processes in Memory

这项研究将扩展之前开发人类记忆的计算机模拟模型的工作。该项目包括两种活动。首先，研究将使用模拟来更深入地探索该模型的有趣特性，并将该模型应用于最初开发时未考虑到的人类记忆现象。其次，这项研究将包括对人类记忆的实验，以更好地理解该模型几个明显的预测性失败背后的原因。这些实验将侧重于如何从记忆中检索信息，以及如何根据检索到的信息对记忆事件进行判断。实验涉及的问题是一般性问题，而不是特定于模型的问题，因此实验结果将与人类记忆理论广泛相关。虽然这项工作不太可能立即得到实际应用，但它将加深我们对人类记忆的特性及其在认知中的作用的理解，因此从长远来看，将有助于在教育和培训、脑损伤和健忘以及人类判断和决策中的偏见等领域的应用。

This research will extend previous work developing a computer simulation model of human memory. The project includes two kinds of activities. First, the research will use simulation to explore interesting properties of the model in greater depth and to apply the model to human memory phenomena that were not considered in its initial development. Second, the research will include experiments on human memory, in order to better understand the reasons behind several of the model's apparent predictive failures. These experiments will focus on how information is retrieved from memory and how judgments regarding remembered events are based on the retrieved information. The questions to which the experiments are addressed are general ones, not model-specific, so that the experimental results will be of broad relevance to theories of human memory. Although this work is unlikely to have immediate practical application, it will further our understanding of the properties of human memory and its role in cognition, and so will contribute in the long run to applications in such areas as education and training, brain damage and amnesia, and biases in human judgment and decision making.