Modelling mental imagery in the ACT-R cognitive architecture

David Peebles

Modelling mental imagery in the ACT-R cognitive architecture

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Abstract

I present a novel approach to modelling spatial mental imagery within the ACT-R cognitive architecture. The proposed method augments ACT-R’s representation of visual objects to enable the processing of spatial extent and incorporates a set of linear and affine transformation functions to allow the manipulation of internal spatial representations. The assumptions of the modified architecture are then tested by using it to develop models of two classic mental imagery phenomena: the mental scanning study of Kosslyn, Ball, and Reiser (1978) and mental rotation (Shepard & Metzler, 1971). Both models provide very close fits to human response time data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019)
Subtitle of host publication	Creativity + Cognition + Computation
Editors	Ashok Goel, Colleen Seifert, Christian Freksa
Publisher	Cognitive Science Society
Pages	2550-2556
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	0991196775, 9780991196777
ISBN (Print)	9781510891555
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2019
Event	41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation - Montreal, Canada Duration: 24 Jul 2019 → 27 Jul 2019 Conference number: 41 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2019/ https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/past-conferences/

Conference

Conference	41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Abbreviated title	COGSCI2019
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	24/07/19 → 27/07/19
Internet address	https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2019/ https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/past-conferences/

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Modelling mental imagery in the ACT-R cognitive architecture. / Peebles, David.

41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019) : Creativity + Cognition + Computation . ed. / Ashok Goel; Colleen Seifert; Christian Freksa. Cognitive Science Society, 2019. p. 2550-2556.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Modelling mental imagery in the ACT-R cognitive architecture

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