Title
Automatic and strategic aspects of knowledge retrieval
Abstract
An experiment was performed in which subjects retrieved members of natural categories. Subjects used a variety of retrieval cues in this task, making knowledge retrieval a two-tiered process: First, contexts were generated in which category members are likely to be found, and second, these were used as retrieval cues to produce the category members themselves. These retrieval cues were primarily episodic rather than abstract-semantic. Similarly, in a script-generation task, subjects tended to generate scripts from personal experiences rather than through the retrieval of an abstract scheme or script. A loosely interassociated memory network is suggested by these results. A model of memory retrieval developed to account for the data of list-learning experiments by Raaijmakers and Shiffrin was shown to be able to account for the automatic component of knowledge retrieval but requires a more complex control structure before it can successfully simulate the retrieval strategies used by the subjects in these experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
1985
10.1016/S0364-0213(85)80016-1
Cognitive Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
control structure
Cognitive models of information retrieval,Personal experience,Human–computer information retrieval,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Knowledge retrieval,Scripting language
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
2
0364-0213
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
2.05
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William H. Walker1112.05
Walter Kintsch27414.66