Schneider & Anderson (2012)

Modeling fan effects on the time course of associative recognition

Cognitive Psychology, 64(3), 127-160

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Schneider, D. W., & Anderson, J. R. (2012). Modeling fan effects on the time course of associative recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 64(3), 127-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2011.11.001

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Retrieval Interference Memory Processes

Measured in humans

Fan effects on accuracy depend on how well material is learned: in Wickelgren and Corbett's data from six people who saw word pairs or triples once for 3 s, fitted maximum d' (a discrimination score where 0 is chance) was 4.01 for fan 1 and 2.72 for fan 2, whereas ten people who learned person-location facts over five sessions showed no difference in maximum accuracy, only a slower rise
Measured in AI

Cao et al.'s human values (about 3.7 and 2.5) are not stated in their cited source's text but match its plotted long-lag d' for Wickelgren and Corbett's six people studying word pairs and triples under response deadlines; with different materials, no reported spread and GPT-4 able to see the list, its similar cost (about 1.0 vs 1.2 to 1.3 d' units) is only a tie