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Direct linkSikstrom, Sverker – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
Forgetting in long-term memory, as measured in a recall or a recognition test, is faster for items encoded more recently than for items encoded earlier. Data on forgetting curves fit a power function well. In contrast, many connectionist models predict either exponential decay or completely flat forgetting curves. This paper suggests a…
Descriptors: Intervals, Recognition (Psychology), Long Term Memory, Knowledge Representation
