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136+. Interview with Prof. Christian Lebiere on ACT-R and Cognitive Architecture

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Cognitive Architectures - Is There a Brain in a Box?

The original version of the architecture held one goal that was sort of used to organize cognition now we have a number of those similar constructs so for example to retrieve information from memory you cannot retrieve an arbitrary number of information and go back and backtrack. You can request one piece of information from memory at a time and through that buffer construct and then the result when memory is finished with that will come back in the buffer. The concept of working memory has really emerged in the form of that set of buffers because it's essentially the consciously available knowledge is what pops up in those buffers.

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