Co-evolution of Knowledge and Event Memory
Abstract
The project investigated the inter-relation of event memory and knowledge as they co-evolve together. The formation of knowledge is based on an accumulation of information from many similar events. The coding of events is based on the then-current status of related knowledge. Key empirical studies established the role of frequency of events in storage and retrieval, the role of experimental and pre-experimental memory traces, statistical accumulation of information across many events, and the storage of new traces for test events. The key element of the theory, abbreviated SARKAE (for the Storage And Retrieval of Knowledge And Events), is the assumption that that an event occurrence produces two sorts of memory storage: an incomplete and error prone event trace, and addition of some of this same information to an existing trace that is sufficiently similar (including earlier event traces, and any developed knowledge trace). The latter addition is the process that allows knowledge to grow from events.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA579581
Entities
People
- Richard Shiffrin
Organizations
- Indiana University