<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The knowledge in declarative memory is usually organized as conceptual knowledge, i.e., it abstracts out some perceptual detail, can have semantics, hierarchical structure, etc. <div><br></div><div>~ ion</div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div>On Sep 2, 2014, at 3:29 PM, "Sandra L. Vaughan" <<a href="mailto:sandralvaughan@gmail.com">sandralvaughan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div>ACT-R Group,</div><div> </div><div>I need to either confirm that there are no existsing models of "Conceptual Knowledge" (see definition below) in ACT-R (or any other Cognitive Modeling Architecture), or find them if they exist.</div>
<div> </div><div>I have accomplished a rather exhaustive search of avaiable literature, including the ACT-R acrhives,and have not found anything. So I thought I would send a request out to the group.</div><div> </div><div>
Thank you in advance for your reply.</div><div> </div><div>Definition - <font face="CMBX12">conceptual knowledge </font><p align="LEFT"><font face="CMR12">\When we store experience in memory, we do not record </font><font face="CMR12">every detail, as a physical recording would. We keep some of the information and drop other [perceived as unimportant] details. We can abstract from specific experiences to general categories of the properties of that class of experiences. <font face="CMR12">This sort of abstraction creates conceptual knowledge involving categories: for example, chairs and dogs (p.154) [2]"</font></font></p>
<font face="CMR12"><font face="CMR12"></font></font><font face="CMR12"><p align="LEFT">[2] Anderson, J. R., <font face="cmti12">Cognitive psychology and its implications</font><font face="CMR12">, Macmillan, sixth ed.,</font><font face="CMR12"></font></p>
<font face="CMR12"><p>2005.</p></font></font><p align="LEFT"><font face="CMR12">Thanks,</font></p><p align="LEFT"><font face="CMR12">Sandy</font></p><font face="CMR12"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font><p>Sandra L. Vaughan<br clear="all"></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
</div><div><div dir="ltr">Sandra L. Vaughan<div>Air Force Institute of Technology</div><div>Cell 706 619 6185</div></div></div>
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