@inproceedings{nematzadeh.etal.12.cmcl, 
    author  = "Aida Nematzadeh and Afsaneh Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson",
    title = {A Computational Model of Memory, Attention, and Word Learning},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    year = {2012},
    download="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aida/papers/nematzadeh_etal_12_cmcl.pdf",
    abstract="There is considerable evidence that people generally learn items
    better when the presentation of items is distributed over a period of time
    (the spacing effect). We hypothesize that both forgetting and attention to
    novelty play a role in the spacing effect in word learning. We build an
    incremental probabilistic computational model of word learning that
    incorporates a forgetting and attentional mechanism.  Our model accounts
    for experimental results on children as well as several patterns observed
    in adults.",
}