Constrained Functionality: Application of the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture to the AMBR Modeling Comparison

Symbolic Level ACT-R is a production system theory that models the steps of cognition by a sequence of production rules that fire to coordinate retrieval of information from the environment and from memory. It is a cognitive architecture that can be used to model a wide range of human cognition. It has been used to model tasks from memory retrieval (Anderson, Bothell, Lebiere & Matessa, 1998) to visual search (Anderson, Matessa & Lebiere, 1997). The range of models developed, from those purely concerned with internal cognition to those focused on perception and action, makes ACT-R a plausible candidate to model a task like the air traffic control simulation described previously because the task includes all of these various components. In all domains, ACT-R is distinguished by the detail and fidelity with which it models human cognition. It makes claims about what

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