[ACT-R-users] Hello,everyone. New ideas are flushing my head.

[db30 at andrew.cmu.edu]

Instead of trying to answer your question directly, I think it might be
more useful to provide you with information on some places where you can
investigate that for yourself.

First, for a general description of ACT-R I would suggest reading the paper
"An Integrated Theory of the Mind", which is available from the ACT-R web
site at: <http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/pubinfo.php?id=526>, and
also looking at the book "How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical
Universe?" <http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/pubinfo.php?id=680>.

For information on specific research which has been done with ACT-R, there
are many published papers available on the ACT-R web site under the
publications link: <http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/index.php>.  There
you can look for research which is related to the issues in which you are
interested.

Then, if you want to actually try ACT-R and see how it works you can
download it from the Software page of the ACT-R web site:
<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/actr6/>.  There is a set of tutorial units
included with the software which will introduce how to use it.  Those
tutorial units are also available on their own from the Software page if
you would like to look at them first, and here is a direct link to a
.zip of the tutorial texts: <http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/actr6/units.zip>.

Hope that helps,
Dan

--On Monday, August 29, 2011 6:49 PM -0700 Wang Junchao <wangjunchao at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
>
> Hello,everyone. As I am a freshman in the area of Artificial Intelligence, I
> got a lot of things unclear.
> But I think that it both has advantages and disadvantages.
> For the good part, I can think of questions freely without the constraint of
> the available knowledge.
> For the bad part, I don't know whether some methods have been proposed or
> applied by others.
> Recently, new ideas are flushing my head. So I'd like to share it with you.
> As ACT-R is designed to simulate the behavior of human beings, so there must
> be a question that can not be neglected??humans can forget something. I think
> that's why humans can store so much information. For example, I remember that
> once I've been to a room. However, when others asked me to describe the room,
> then maybe I can only remember the main layout of it. A lot of details such
> as the color of the furniture have been forgotten. I think this forgeting is
> quite natural.
>
> With the explosion of the state and knowledge, some unimportant information
> must be negelected. I am asking that whether this mechenism has been realized
> in ACT-R and is it worth researching?
> Looking forward for your reply.
>