A molar entropy model of age differences in spatial memory 01-11-2014d2352

2014-08-29

A molar entropy model of age differences in spatial memory 01-11-2014d2352

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this paper has some interesting facts about the history of entropy and its application to a variety of fields which I was not aware of before
"molar neural network"
"computational temperature"
20 young adults (mean age 23.6 years old) and 20 older adults (mean age 69.6 years old)
"The significant effect of age on entropy indicates that older

adults exhibited more processing variability"

"These error data results suggest that the primary locus of older

adults' larger distance effect was not at the encoding stage but
that the age difference was spread across several processing
stages (e.g., Cerella, 1985b, 1991)."

neuronal noise
computational temperature of a neural network model
" our model assumes that older adults' slower pro-

cessing speed is a by-product of their increased neural noise
(or higher computational temperature)"