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Burstier Events: Analysing Human Memory Over a Century of Events Using The New York Times

2022-06-10

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<p>Over the last few decades, psychologists have increasingly found that the mind stores and uses the statistics of its environment. However, less work has analyzed whether the environmental statistics have changed and what that would imply for the mind. In this chapter, we consider human memory as the solution to the computational problem of predicting what events will happen next given a history of past events....

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30c9b8f9-aae5-565f-9742-dab9644c681b
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10.31234/osf.io/yt2bn
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