Cognitive Science articles from January 2000

Cognitive Science archives from January 2000

Comprehension-Based Skill Acquisition.
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION There are numerous theories of how we acquire knowledge and skill by engaging in problem solving episodes, and several have been implemented as computational models. For example, case-based planning (e.g., Hammond, 1989)...

Accommodating Surprise in Taxonomic Tasks: The Role of Expertise.
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION The motivation of the studies reported in this paper was to explore the role of unexpected observations in science. How do scientists cope with surprise? How do they revise their theories to accommodate novel inconsistent...

Computational Evidence for the Subitizing Phenomenon as an Emergent Property of the Human Cognitive Architecture.
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION In the typical visual enumeration experiment, human participants are instructed to quantify collections of visually-presented objects as quickly and accurately as possible. Reaction times tend to increase with numerosity,...

A Local Connectionist Account of Consonant Harmony in Child Language.
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION Despite the many fronts on which the study of the acquisition of phonology has made considerable headway, there is a conspicuous lack of anything approaching an information-processing model that specifies the relationship...

A Neuronal Basis for the Fan Effect.
January 1, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION In many controlled experiments, the more facts a human knows about something, the longer it takes him or her to react to statements about that thing (Anderson, 1974, 1983a, 1983b). The ACT family of memory retrieval models...