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Notes:
Logan’s model of automatic attention assumes that each experience gets stored in the mind. Behaviors become automatic when enough examples are stored so that it is faster to retrieve a known example than to compute the appropriate response to a situation.
Logan’s model is an example of more general exemplar theories (case-based reasoning), which assume that examples of events are stored in memory. Later events are classified according to their similarity to stored events.
Hebb’s model of synaptic learning—synapses that are used often gain strength—is another example. What is stored is the activity that was present when the event was experienced. Hebb’s model comes closest to a dynamic systems approach in that experience changes the operation of the system. No one synapse necessarily carries the representation, but each changed synapse participates in the representation.
