--- 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.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - etarnow@avabiz.com creators_name: - family: Tarnow given: Eugen honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 2013-08-03 date_type: completed datestamp: 2013-09-17 14:21:48 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/90/73 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 9073 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/9073/1/Criteria%20for%20evaluating%20computer%20models%20of%20short%20term%20memory%20070512.doc full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: ~ item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: short term memory models lastmod: 2013-09-17 14:21:48 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: "Brown GDA, Neath I, Chater N (2007) A temporal ratio model of memory. Psychol Rev 114(3):539–576\r\nBrown, G. D. Preece, T. Hulme, C. (2000), Oscillator-Based Memory for Serial Order, Psychological Review 107 (1), 127-181.\r\nWK Estes (1975) \"Some Targets for Mathematical Psychology\" JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY 12,263-282\r\nHanna JF (1969) \"Some information measures for testing stochastic models\" Journal of Mathematical Psychology Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 294–311\r\nHoward, M. W., & Kahana, M. J. (2002). A distributed representation of temporal context. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 46(3), 269-299.\r\nLaming, D. (2010). Serial position curves in free recall. Psychological review, 117(1), 93.\r\nLee, M. D., & Pooley, J. P. (2013). Correcting the SIMPLE model of free recall. Psychological review, 120(1), 293.\r\nMurdock, B. B., & Okada, R. (1970). Interresponse times in single-trial free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 86(2), 263.\r\nPitt, M.A., Myung, I.J., & Zhang, S. (2002). Toward a method of selecting among computational models of cognition. Psychological Review, 109, 427–491. \r\nPolyn, S. M., Norman, K. A., & Kahana, M. J. (2009). A context maintenance and retrieval model of organizational processes in free recall. Psychological review, 116(1), 129. \r\nRoberts S, Pashler H (2000) How Persuasive is a Good Fit? A Comment on Theory Testing Psychological Review Vol. 107, No. 2, 358-367\r\nSederberg, P. B., Howard, M. W., & Kahana, M. J. (2008). A context-based theory of recency and contiguity in free recall. Psychological review, 115(4), 893.\r\nDavelaar, E. J., Goshen-Gottstein, Y., Ashkenazi, A., Haarmann, H. J., & Usher, M. (2005). The demise of short-term memory revisited: empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. Psychological Review, 112(1), 3.\r\nHenson RNA (1998) Short-Term Memory for Serial Order: The Start-End Model, Cognitive Psychology 36 (2) 73-137.\r\nMurdock Jr., Bennet B. (1962). The serial position effect of free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Vol 64(5): 482-488.\r\nTarnow, E. (2010). Why The Atkinson-Shiffrin Model Was Wrong From The Beginning. WebmedCentral NEUROLOGY 2010;1(10):WMC001021\r\n" relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 9 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2013-09-17 14:21:48 subjects: - cog-psy - comp-neuro-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: "How to Kill a Computer Model of Short Term Memory in Psychological Review\r\nPart I: Separate Fittings of Experimental Data" type: other userid: 2525 volume: ~