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

[David Peebles]

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David


On 28 January 2014 18:45, Lynne Reder <reder at cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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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