[ACT-R-users] PM-Question

[Mike Schoelles]

>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
>  Tel.: +49 921 554140
>  http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/wolfgang.html
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Wolfgang,

If pm-proc-display is called when the environment changes and a 
location is currently being attended, then the vision module will 
encode  the object at the currently attended location.

Mike Schoelles