ACT-R: A higher-level account of processing capacity
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (6):831-832 (1998)
| Abstract | We present an account of processing capacity in the ACT-R theory. At the symbolic level, the number of chunks in the current goal provides a measure of relational complexity. At the subsymbolic level, limits on spreading activation, measured by the attentional parameter W, provide a theory of processing capacity, which has been applied to performance, learning, and individual differences data. | |||||||||
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