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Direct linkMonaco, Joseph D.; Abbott, L. F.; Kahana, Michael J. – Learning & Memory, 2007
The word-frequency effect (WFE) in recognition memory refers to the finding that more rare words are better recognized than more common words. We demonstrate that a familiarity-discrimination model operating on data from a semantic word-association space yields a robust WFE in data on both hit rates and false-alarm rates. Our modeling results…
Descriptors: Semantics, Recognition (Psychology), Word Frequency, Associative Learning
