reviewer comments about cognitive modeling

[Wolfgang Schoppek]

Chris and Dieter,
here are two reviews on conference papers about two different models
(the second ones were both positive, so I didn't cite them here - or do
you want to hear models being praised, too?)

ICCM-2000:
The basic logic of this model is identical to a well-known ACT-R model
of sequence learning (Lebiere & Wallach).  Moreover, it makes many
adhoc, questionable assumptions, the most egregious being the assumption
that fragmentary scans are present in the learning phase so they can be
demonstrated later. ...


CogSci 2000:
This paper makes a good contribution to modeling memory for continually
changing information.  The author also provides good empirical
verification.  It is not clear just how much more explanation is
provided by this paper as compared to the paper by Venturino, although
the present author does claim parsimony.

Comment on this: Venturino had speculated about two types of memory, one
for static, and one for dynamic information. The model demonstrates that
standard memory assumptions (together with a probabilistic task
analysis) are sufficient to explain the data.

-- Wolfgang
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