| Description |
1 online resource (874 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Newell's Dream; A Brief Sketch of ACT-R; An Atomic Level of Thought; The No-Magic Doctrine in ACT-R; 2. Knowledge Representation; The Procedural-Declarative Distinction; The Structure of Chunks; Production Rules; General Features of Production Rules; Production Syntax; Restrictions on Production Rules; Goal Structures and Production Rules; Goal Structures in ACT-R; Types of Production Rules; Tower of Hanoi Example; Conclusions; 3. Performance; Overview; Conflict Resolution |
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Role of P, G, and C in Conflict ResolutionStochasticity in Conflict Resolution; Evidence: "Probability Matching" Experiments; Retrieval; Activation-Based Retrieval; Changes in Base-Level Activation; Relationship to Response Probability; Partial Matching; Relationship to Latency; The Fan Experiment; Retrieval Failure; Summary; Appendix A; Appendix B; Rational Analysis Model; Neural Model; Appendix C: Productions and Trace that Instantiate the Abstract Analysis in Fig. 3.1; Productions; Trace; Appendix D: ACT-R's Variables and Parameters; 4. Learning; Learning of Chunks |
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Addition-by-Counting ExampleRelationship to Other Learning Theories; Learning of Productions; Past ACT Mechanisms for Learning Production Rules; Production Compilation; Inducing Productions From Dependency Structures; Special Slots of the Dependency Structure; An Example of Production Compilation; Learning of Declarative Parameters; Learning of Base-Level Activations; An Example of Base-Level Learning; Learning of Associative Strengths; Learning of Procedural Parameters; Production Strength; Production Rule Success and Cost |
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Application to an Experiment About Learning Conflict-Resolution ParametersOptimality of Choice Behavior; 5. The Visual Interface; Visual Attention; The Sperling Task; The Subitizing Task; A Visual Search Task; Conclusions; Pattern Recognition; The Rational Theory of Categorization; The Word Superiority Effect; Application to Menu Selection Data; Fit to the Nilsen Data; Effect of Distractor Set; Conclusions; 6. Perception and Action; Previous Approaches to Perception and Action; The ACT-R Visual Interface; EPIC; A Theory of Cognition, Perception, and Action: ACT-R/PM; The Vision Module |
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The Motor ModuleThe Audition and Speech Modules; The Theory at Work: Psychological Refractory Period; PRP Basics; A Simple PRP Model; A Cognitive PRP Experiment; Methods; Discussion; An ACT-R/PM Model of the PRP Experiment; Summary; 7. List Memory; Serial Memory; An ACT-R Model of Serial Recall; A Study of Backward and Forward Recall; The ACT-R Simulation; Recognition Memory; The Sternberg Paradigm; Recognition Memory and Signal Detectability Analysis; List Strength and List Length Effects; Context Effects in Recognition Memory; Free Recall; Serial Position Effects |
| Summary |
This book achieves a goal that was set 25 years ago when the HAM theory of human memory was published. This theory reflected one of a number of then-current efforts to create a theory of human cognition that met the twin goals of precision and complexity. Up until then the standard for precision had been the mathematical theories of the 1950s and 1960s. These theories took the form of precise models of specific experiments along with some informal, verbally-stated understanding of how they could be extended to new experiments. They seemed to fall far short of capturing the breadth and power of |
| Notes |
List Length and List Strength Effects |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lebiere, Christian J
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| ISBN |
9781317778318 |
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1317778316 |
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