ACT-R Spring School

Next week I will attend the ACT-R Spring School at the University of Groningen. I will teach a class and mentor researchers who come to Groningen to start new ACT-R research projects. In my lecture I will introduce the RACE/A declarative memory theory that has recently been proposed as an extension to ACT-R. RACE/A models enable researchers to include very detailed accounts of memory and decision-making processes in their ACT-R models. Sofar, the theory has been applied to make integrated ACT-R models of the Stroop effect, picture-word interference, learning and cognitive control related effects in semantic interference, and lexical decision.
After the Spring School, I will also present my recent work on the First European ACT-R Workshop. In this talk, I will discuss an experimental paradigm used in multiple-choice decision-making research, and present a model very much in line with RACE/A that may explain some complex interactions that we have observed in the paradigm.