Do Humans Navigate via Random Walks? Modeling Navigation in a Semantic Word Game
- Mohammad Isyroqi Fathan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
- Eli K. Renfro, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
- Joseph Austerweil, Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Nicole M. Beckage, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
AbstractWe investigate a method for formulating context and task specific computational models of human performance in a constrained semantic memory task. In particular, we assume that memory retrieval can only use a simple process -- a random walk -- and examine whether the effect of context and task can be captured by using a straightforward network estimation method that is sensitive to context and task. We found that the random walk model on the context-specific networks mimics human performance.