[ACT-R-users] New York Times, Science Times!

[Lynne Reder]

I did manage to see the article and then saw that others responded to my problem in accessing it.  So my response to Susan (and the link to our relevant paper) is forwarded here.

On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Lynne Reder wrote:

> Hi Susan,
> 
> Actually, we (Norbou Buchler and I)  have published a paper that makes this point.  That said, I definitely do not consider this to be the whole story so I find the article misleading.  Anyway, here is the linke to our paper on this topic. 
> 
> http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/publications/07Buchler_Reder.pdf
> 
> citation:  Buchler, N & Reder, L. M. (2007) Modeling Age-Related Memory Deficits: A Two-Parameter Solution.  Psychology and Aging 2007 (22) No. 1, 104 –121.  DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.104
> 
> Nice to hear from you (swamped though),
> Lynne
> 
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Susan Chipman wrote:
> 
>> Wondering about your reaction to this comment of mine.
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Susan Chipman <susan.chipman at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] New York Times, Science Times!
>> To: "Gray, Wayne" <grayw at rpi.edu>
>> Cc: John Anderson <ja at cmu.edu>
>> 
>> 
>>           Interesting.   When I first heard about Anderson's fan effect research, I had the thought that it might imply that the mind would grind to a halt as more things were learned -- explaining age effects.   I never pursued this since neither memory research nor aging was one of my interests.
>> 
>> Susan
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu> wrote:
>> FYI. 
>> 
>> The article highlight in January's Topics in Cognitive Science has come to the attention of the NY Times Science Time in today's paper.
>> 
>> There are links to the paper, but not to its Editorial Introduction. So here:
>> 
>> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12080/abstract
>> 
>> and here is the NY Times story by Ben Carey.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/the-older-mind-may-just-be-a-fuller-mind/?rref=science&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Science&pgtype=article
>> 
>> This is cognitive modeling combined with the use of big data (via mining google) to come up with predictions contrary to the received wisdom. It is not ACTR modeling and is not a topic that most of you study, but I think you will enjoy the NYTimes article and the original paper.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
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