Pinker and colleagues propose two mechanisms–a rule system and a lexical memory–to
form past tenses and other inflections. They predict that children's acquisition of the regular …

Newell (1980; 1990) proposed that cognitive theories be developed in an effort to satisfy
multiple criteria and to avoid theoretical myopia. He provided two overlap** lists of 13 …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

One goal of researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence is to build
theoretical models that are able to explain the flexibility and adaptiveness of biological …

Automated Vehicle (AV) technology has the potential to significantly improve driver safety.
Unfortunately, drivers could be reluctant to ride with AVs due to their lack of trust and …

Adaptive control of thought-rational (ACT-R; JR Anderson & C. Lebiere, 1998) has evolved
into a theory that consists of multiple modules but also explains how these modules are …

" The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now
know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles …

Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary
perspective, working at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence …

This article presents the primitive elements theory of cognitive skills. The central idea is that
skills are broken down into primitive information processing elements that move and …

Multitasking is all around us: the office worker interrupted by a phone call, the teenager
texting while driving, the salesperson chatting while entering an order. When multitasking …