creators_name: Tarnow, Eugen
creators_id: etarnow@avabiz.com
type: other
datestamp: 2013-09-17 14:21:48
lastmod: 2013-09-17 14:21:48
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title: How to Kill a Computer Model of Short Term Memory in Psychological Review
Part I: Separate Fittings of Experimental Data
ispublished: unpub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-neuro-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: short term memory models
abstract: The short term memory field is inundated with computer models purporting to describe the workings of our mind.  I show that several of them are not based in science: they use parameters that do not have intrinsic values but are simply separately fitted to each experimental situation, in effect treating each memory experiment as having different-species subjects.
date: 2013-08-03
date_type: completed
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Tarnow, Dr. Eugen  (2013) How to Kill a Computer Model of Short Term Memory in Psychological Review Part I: Separate Fittings of Experimental Data.     (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/9073/1/Criteria%20for%20evaluating%20computer%20models%20of%20short%20term%20memory%20070512.doc