Humans are capable of performing many novel tasks with little or no instruction, contrary to machines. Unfortunately, research in cognitive science and psychology pays very little attention to this. Because of this, many cognitive models focus on exhaustively explaining data from single experiments, but ignore the question where that knowledge originates from, and how it can be reused in other contexts. A possible solution is to assume people have a set of cognitive skills that they can recombine to carry out tasks. The idea is analogous to the idea that words in a language can be combined in many different ways to create new meaning. I will demonstrate this idea using the PRIMs cognitive architecture, which is derived from the ACT-R architecture, for example with the Attentional Blink task. The model of that task only consists of skills taken from models of other tasks.
15 MARCH 2023 AT 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Niels Tattgen (University of Groningen)
The Skill-based Method of Modeling Human Intelligent Behavior
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