ACT-R and Neural Nets

[Chipman, Susan]

Sandra Marshall and her associates at SDSU have been doing this under
support from ONR's special program (now ended), Hybrid Architectures for
Complex Learning.  smarshall at sciences.sdsu.edu

Susan F. Chipman, Ph.D.
Office of Naval Research, Code 342
800 N. Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22217-5660
phone:  703-696-4318
Fax:  703-696-1212


-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Kelley [mailto:tkelley at arl.mil]
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:32 PM
To: act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: ACT-R and Neural Nets


Hello Everyone,

I am attempting to tie neural nets to ACT-R (and perhaps SOAR) for a
project I am working on called MINDSS (Modeling and Integration of
Neurological Dynamics with Symbolic Structures).  The project is becoming
very high profile and I have access to our supercomputers here at the Army
Research Laboratory to do the MINDSS work.

Anyway, my questions are:

1) As anyone out there had any experience with NeuralWare Software?
2) Can anyone recommend general neural net software that generates portable
code (C or LISP)?
3) Are there "hooks" in ACT-R that would let me link a neural network to it
and is there documentation for this?
4) Am I crazy?


Thanks,
Troy Kelley
Army Research Laboratory