Publication: If God Handed Us the Ground-Truth Theory of Memory, How Would We Recognize It?
If God Handed Us the Ground-Truth Theory of Memory, How Would We Recognize It?
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Popov, V. (2023). If God Handed Us the Ground-Truth Theory of Memory, How Would We Recognize It? (No. ay5cm; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Cognitive Psychology; Memory). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ay5cm
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What makes a scientific theory convincing? We have many formal models of human memory, but no agreement about which is the right one. If anything, we agree that they are all wrong. By analyzing the properties of successful theories in physics, I propose that we will be convinced by a theory of memory only when it is able to make precise point predictions for individual people’s behavior in any new memory task, manipulation, or paradigm we could construct, without refitting parameters to do so or only by estimating its parameters for e
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Popov, V. (2023). If God Handed Us the Ground-Truth Theory of Memory, How Would We Recognize It? (No. ay5cm; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Cognitive Psychology; Memory). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ay5cm
