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Srull, Thomas K.; Wyer, Robert S., Jr. – Psychological Review, 1989
A theoretical model of person memory and judgment--the processes underlying the formation of person impressions--is presented. It incorporates both specific behaviors and abstract personality dispositions or behavioral tendencies. The model accounts for factors affecting recall of social information and interpersonal judgments and is applicable to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Behavior Patterns, Evaluative Thinking, Experimental Psychology
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Howard, Marc W.; Fotedar, Mrigankka S.; Datey, Aditya V.; Hasselmo, Michael E. – Psychological Review, 2005
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) has been studied extensively at all levels of analysis, yet its function remains unclear. Theory regarding the cognitive function of the MTL has centered along 3 themes. Different authors have emphasized the role of the MTL in episodic recall, spatial navigation, or relational memory. Starting with the temporal…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Simulation
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Frank, Michael J.; Claus, Eric D. – Psychological Review, 2006
The authors explore the division of labor between the basal ganglia-dopamine (BG-DA) system and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in decision making. They show that a primitive neural network model of the BG-DA system slowly learns to make decisions on the basis of the relative probability of rewards but is not as sensitive to (a) recency or (b) the…
Descriptors: Brain, Decision Making, Probability, Reinforcement