Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

AI models of reminding (ARCS, MAC/FAC) that predict that memory access is influenced by analogical similarity are tested. In Experiment 1, subjects initially studied a set of 12 target stories. Later, subjects read 10 other cue stories and were asked to write down the stories they were reminded of from the first set. Cue stories were associated with either an analogous and disanalogous target (competition condition), an analogous target (singleton condition), or a disanalogous target (singleton condition). An effect of analogical similarity was found only in the competition condition. Experiment 2 used the same design but targets and cues were simple subject-verb-object sentences. Cue sentences shared similar nouns and verbs with target sentences. Materials were constructed such that associated nouns either consistently mapped or cross-mapped between cues and targets. Consistent-mapped sentences were recalled more than cross-mapped sentences in both conditions. Issues for future research are addressed.