changing of the guard

[Christian Schunn]

Ellis, A. W., & Lambon-Ralph, M. A. (2000). Age of acquisition 
effects in adult lexical processing reflects loss of plasticity in 
maturing systems: Insights from connectionist networks. Journal of 
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26(5), 
1103-1123.
 
-Chris
 
At 9:36 AM -0400 10/18/00, Christian Schunn wrote:
>In re-flipping through my last issue of JEP:LMC, I made a startling 
>discovery that is very relevant to much of the ACT-R community. For 
>the first time (that I know of), JEP:LMC has published a 
>modeling-only paper. The second article in that issue has absolutely 
>no new human data, just a series of simulation results. I view this 
>as a major coup and perhaps the beginning of a new era.
>
>For those of you who aren't familiar with the details of JEP:LMC: It 
>is generally considered the top cognitive journal and has had a long 
>history of preferring data over models (both explicitly and 
>implicitly). I'm not sure how this came about. While the editorial 
>board has changed, the editorial statement remains the same, none of 
>the new editorial board members are modelers themselves, and it is 
>rumored that some have been heard to have made anti-modeling 
>comments. Perhaps it is finally becoming clear to the larger 
>cognitive community that modeling can be an empirical science.
>
>Whatever the reason, we now can all point to this case as legal 
>precedent for why JEP:LMC (and indeed JEP:G, JEP:HPP, Cog Psy, JML, 
>Thinking & Reasoning, ...) should consider modeling-only papers.
>
>-Chris
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