You Can't Play 20 Questions With Nature and Win: Projective Comments on the Papers of This Symposium

Newell, Allen

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“…Research on integrated models was proclaimed amongst others by Newell in the early seventies (see e.g. [30]). Newell argued in favor of a unified theory of cognition [29].…”

Section: Cognitive Modelsmentioning

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New Requirements for Modelling How Humans Succeed and Fail in Complex Traffic Scenarios

Lüdtke

2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.In this text aspects of human decision making in complex traffic environments are described and requirements for cognitive models that shall be used as virtual test pilots or test drivers for new assistance concepts are derived. Assistance systems are an accepted means to support humans in complex traffic environments. There is a growing consensus that cognitive models can be used to test systems from a human factors perspective. The text describes the current state of cognitive architectures and argues that though very relevant achievements have been realized some important characteristics of human decision making have so far been neglected: humans use environment and time dependent heuristics. An extension of the typical cognitive cycle prevalent in extant models is suggested.

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“…Research on integrated models was proclaimed amongst others by Newell in the early seventies (see e.g. [30]). Newell argued in favor of a unified theory of cognition [29].…”

Section: Cognitive Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Requirements for Modelling How Humans Succeed and Fail in Complex Traffic Scenarios

Lüdtke

2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Binary oppositions. Newell (1973) was critical of binary oppositions as means of formulating research questions and directing research in cognition, and Pylyshyn's penetrable/impenetrable perception, exogenous/endogenous attention, and perceptions/ cognitions are good examples of such oppositions. Newell's main concern was that such an approach fosters oversimplification in classification and hypothesis testing and directs attention away from the more difficult, pertinent and complex questions of mechanism and causality.…”

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“…Newell's (1973) essay, which I consider extremely important and meriting the wide attention it has received, provides a critique of a particular piecemeal research strategy widely practiced in psychology, not of the existence of distinctions (Newell's SOAR approach embodies lots of distinctions). Newell correctly argued for a more top-down research strategy in which the development of larger-scope theories guides the narrower experimental research questions one asks.…”

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“…It is, of course, unfair to ask Pylyshyn to provide immediate answers to the venerable questions of reduction and of how the mental can affect the physiological. Nonetheless, we need some explicit account of how the penetrable are penetrated and why the impenetrable cannot be penetrated, which highlights again Newell's (1973) plea for clearly specified theory and mechanism rather than descriptive binary oppositions. Abstract: Signal detection theory (SDT) is best known as a method for separating sensitivity from bias.…”

Section: Designations and Denotations Of Penetrable/impenetrablementioning

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An ecological approach to cognitive (im)penetrability

Withagen¹,

Michaels²

1999

Behav Brain Sci

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We offer an ecological (Gibsonian) alternative to cognitive (im)penetrability. Whereas Pylyshyn explains cognitive (im)penetrability by focusing solely on computations carried out by the nervous system, according to the ecological approach the perceiver as a knowing agent influences the entire animal-environmental system: in the determination of what constitutes the environment (affordances), what constitutes information, what information is detected and, thus, what is perceived.

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“…HAM was a connectionist model of semantic memory that represented Anderson's doctoral research at Stanford University. ACT represents the synthesis of HAM and a production system theory of memory (Newell, 1973).…”

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A Review of Computer-Based Human Behavior Representations and Their Relation to Military Simulations

Morrison¹

2003

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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You Can't Play 20 Questions With Nature and Win: Projective Comments on the Papers of This Symposium

Cited by 667 publications

References 13 publications

New Requirements for Modelling How Humans Succeed and Fail in Complex Traffic Scenarios

New Requirements for Modelling How Humans Succeed and Fail in Complex Traffic Scenarios

An ecological approach to cognitive (im)penetrability

A Review of Computer-Based Human Behavior Representations and Their Relation to Military Simulations

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