Tag: ACT-R

  • Code Practice Pomodoro

    Spending a few nights in ACT-R. The last model I wrote was from unit 2 tutorial where the eye moves, finds a letter, recognizes the letter and then type the letter. This seems like code that just wouldn’t scale very well. Like constructs that I’m use for reusability i’m not familiar with in ACT-R. I…

  • ACT

    Chunks enter declarative memory either as popped goals, reflecting the solutions to past problems, or as perceptions from the environment. The perceptions from the environment pieces is exciting and I think very important. Productions are created from declarative chunks through a process called production compilation. Can productions be created dynamically, and run-time? Seems cognitively plausible…

  • Computers as Cognitive Tools, Vol 2

    /It would have made more sense to start with Vol 1 I admit but this one jumped off the shelf to me and has since become my first checkout at the new university. Lots here to do with modeling I expect./ No more walls I think I know what is meant by this. I’m thinking…

  • ACT & Comfort

    What is the germ of ACT-R? Why is it able to model such a variety of phenomena? Could someone take this germ and use it in other parts of science? You might not start with ACT-R even though you intend to follow that example ultimately. You might look more at unified models generally./ I think…

  • The Atomic Components of Thought

    No one person could have done it alone and it could not have been done by a bunch of individuals working in isolation. Introduction Newell’s Dream The challenge of science is to find the order that exists in the complexity of the world. …modern cognitive psychology … has tended to adopt a divide-and-conquer approach to…