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Source of Activation Confusion model  

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  • "SAC (Source Activation Confusion) implements a spreading activation theory in which semantic and episodic memory traces are represented as localist nodes in a network. In SAC, memory strength is a continuous value stored within nodes and the links between them; this strength increases through practice and decays with time. The strength of semantic and episodic nodes lead to two different signals, familiarity and recollection, which puts SAC in the class of dual-process models." (Popov et Reder, 2020, p. 2).

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  • SAC
  • SAC model
  • Source of Activation Confusion theory

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  • • Popov, V., & Reder, L. M. (2020). Frequency effects on memory: A resource-limited theory. Psychological Review, 127(1), 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000161

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  • • Reder, L. M., Nhouyvanisvong, A., Schunn, C. D., Ayers, M. S., Angstadt, P., & Hiraki, K. (2000). A mechanistic account of the mirror effect for word frequency: A computational model of remember–know judgments in a continuous recognition paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26(2), 294–320. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.26.2.294

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  • • Schunn, C. D., Reder, L. M., Nhouyvanisvong, A., Richards, D. R., & Stroffolino, P. J. (1997). To calculate or not to calculate: A source activation confusion model of problem familiarity’s role in strategy selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23(1), 3–29. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.23.1.3

    [Study type: simulation study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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