ACT-R (Cognitive Archtecture)

act-r.psy.cmu.edu

3 pointsz3phyr3 comments

I've just started messing about with ACT-R a bit lately. Really excited about digging in and learning to use it and learning more about cognitive models. I have some (admittedly vague at the moment) ideas I want to research by way of using ACT-R based models as part of some Semantic Web applications.

It's also a good excuse to finally dive in and learn Lisp properly. I mean, yeah, there is a Java port[1], but I think I'm going to bite the bullet and focus on Lisp for this.

[1]: http://cog.cs.drexel.edu/act-r/

ACT-R is silly; please see Douglas Hofstadter's criticisms of the architecture (published in Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies).

I've been wanting to get that book for a while now, but keep forgetting to order a copy. Thanks for the reminder.

That said, I'm still interesting in playing around with ACT-R a bit.

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