CompCog: Towards a unified account of when external cues are beneficial or detrimental during memory search

CompCog：对记忆搜索过程中外部线索何时有益或有害进行统一解释

• 批准号: 2316716
• 负责人: Qiong Zhang
• 金额: $ 43.08万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316716&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CompCog; Towards; unified; account; when

Imagine you're talking about a family vacation you went on, but you can't remember every detail. Sometimes, someone chimes in during the conversation to remind you of things that happened, helping you remember more. Could we develop an automated way to select reminders and improve someone's memory? This research aims to study how reminders affect memory by examining and modeling their interaction in a 'memory space'. These models allow us to test different theories and make predictions about the effect of reminders. The findings from this research could be valuable in designing memory interventions for individuals in educational settings or those with memory impairments.Contrary to the intuition that cues from the environment are helpful, a substantial body of research demonstrates that the presentation of cues during memory search can sometimes be detrimental. We argue that the effectiveness of cues depends critically on their content and timing. Various descriptive theories of memory cues have been proposed in the literature, but they have been difficult to distinguish empirically, which impacts our ability to predict how effective different kinds of cues and their timing would be. To address these issues, we will translate descriptive theories of memory cues into mathematically-transparent computational models. This approach enables us to quantitatively compare the predictions of these theories regarding the effects of cues, and identify the model that best matches the data. This model can then be used to simulate the effect of all possible combinations of cue content and timing, enabling the selection of the most effective cues. Overall, the proposed research program contributes to a unified account of when external cues are beneficial or detrimental.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

想象一下，您正在谈论一次家庭度假，但您无法记住每个细节。有时，有人会在谈话中插话提醒你发生的事情，帮助你记住更多。我们能否开发一种自动方式来选择提醒并提高某人的记忆力？这项研究旨在通过检查和建模提醒在“记忆空间”中的相互作用来研究提醒如何影响记忆。这些模型使我们能够测试不同的理论并对提醒的效果做出预测。这项研究的结果对于为教育环境中的个人或有记忆障碍的人设计记忆干预措施可能很有价值。与环境线索有帮助的直觉相反，大量研究表明，在记忆搜索过程中呈现线索有时可能是有害的。我们认为，线索的有效性很大程度上取决于它们的内容和时机。文献中已经提出了各种记忆线索的描述性理论，但它们很难凭经验区分，这影响了我们预测不同类型的线索及其时机的有效性的能力。为了解决这些问题，我们将把记忆线索的描述性理论转化为数学上透明的计算模型。这种方法使我们能够定量比较这些理论对线索影响的预测，并确定与数据最匹配的模型。然后，该模型可用于模拟提示内容和时间的所有可能组合的效果，从而能够选择最有效的提示。总体而言，拟议的研究计划有助于对外部线索何时有利或有害进行统一说明。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。