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

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Challenges in Modeling Human Cognitive Science

One challenge in modeling human cognition especially human cognition in the wild outside of very well-defined very constrained laboratory experiment is that humans are quite flexible. So for example imagine that you have a task that is fairly demanding of working memory and that your working memory capacity happens to be low one possibility is that you might resort to strategies that attempt to sort of avoid that weakness. The more unconstrained the sort of the the task that we're trying to model the more those issues really come to the fore. That's a something I didn't expect to be honest that's quite impressive. Well I was completely unaware of that so that means that you would for example be able to give somebody a test which

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