Performance of a Reading Task by an Elementary Perceiving and Memorizing Program
ResearchPublished 1961
An account of some experiments which show that the mechanisms postulated in the Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer (EPAM) for the rote memory tasks are adequate for simulating, at least macroscopically, the processes used by human beings in acquiring the ability to read and understand printed words. The author provides a summary description of the EPAM program, mentions the main processes it uses in rote memory tasks, and describes how these processes are used in learning to read.
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- Year: 1961
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Feigenbaum, Edward A. and Herbert Alexander Simon, Performance of a Reading Task by an Elementary Perceiving and Memorizing Program, RAND Corporation, P-2358, 1961. As of September 24, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2358.html
Feigenbaum, Edward A. and Herbert Alexander Simon, Performance of a Reading Task by an Elementary Perceiving and Memorizing Program. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1961. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P2358.html. Also available in print form.
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