[ACT-R-users] PM-Question

[Wolfgang Schoppek]

I'va a question concerning buffer stuffing: Does buffer stuffing
autonomously command a movement of attention and subsequent encoding?
I always thought it wouldn't do that, but now I encountered a
phenomenon that looks like autonomous attention movement: The model
does central cognition processing when the visual environment changes.
The change makes the visual module "busy" which triggers the
production "wait-for-free". When visual modle is free again, it
returns a new encoding of a visual object, which was never commanded.
The new visual object disturbs the normal proceeding of the model. The
described effect occurs only sometimes and I haven't found any
contingencies yet. Please, see attachment for a trace and the relevant
production rules.
-- WS
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Dr. Wolfgang Schoppek          Universitaet Bayreuth
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