reviewer comments about cognitive modeling

[Bruno Emond]

Chris, 

This is the worst comment I have ever received regarding the use of
cognitive modelling as a research tool and of ACT-R in particular.  That
comment was sent to me as an argument to reject a paper submitted to
cognitive science 99 in Vancouver.

- ACT-R relies on the idea that the mind is a rule system, an idea that is
rather indefensible;


Bruno.

on 08/07/00 04:56, Christian Schunn at schunn at gmu.edu wrote:

> Dieter Wallach and I are writing a paper addressing common complaints
> about computational cognitive modeling (theoretical and pragmatic).
> We would greatly appreciate any anecdotes or quotes that you could
> provide from journal or conference reviews on this topic (to
> demonstrate that these complaints exist in the world rather than just
> in our heads and to document the relative frequency of the complaint
> types). Obviously, the reviewer's (or editor's) identity would have
> to be kept anonymous, but if you could identify the journal (or
> conference) or at least the type of journal (psych, cog sci, comp
> sci, etc), that would be great. To make things easier on you, you can
> send us whole reviews, and we can find the relevant bits.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Chris
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> Christian Schunn
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> George Mason University
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> Currently visiting the University of Basel in Switzerland
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> Best contact method: schunn at gmu.edu
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