[ACT-R-users] computational basis of act-r

[Luis Botelho]

Dear Chris, all



> A couple of days ago, I talked to a researcher at Penn's Institute for
> Research in Cognitive Science who believes ACT-R will be outdated in the
> next couple of years.
>
> He believed that the fundamental method of computation in the brain is
> "oscillation" and that because ACT-R has no computational similarity to
the
> neurological structure of the brain, it will always be a poor modeling
> architecture.

Can you explain or point to some source of information where I can learn
what "oscillation" means?

Thanks
-- Luis

>
> I asked whether ACT-R might be expanded at the subsymbolic level to
include
> this type of modeling.  Any thoughts here from the group, or in regards to
> the IRCS researcher's opinion?
>
> -Chris.
>
>
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