PRIMs Cognitive Architecture

Key publication

Taatgen, N.A. (2013a). The nature and transfer of cognitive skills. Psychological Review, 120(3), 439-471. (pdf)

 

Transfer and Training

Taatgen, N.A. (2016). Theoretical models of training and transfer effects. In: T. Strobach & J. Karbach (eds.), Cognitive Training: An Overview of Features and Applications (pp. 19-29). Springer.

Taatgen, N. A. (2013b). Diminishing Return in Transfer: A PRIM Model of the Frensch (1991) Arithmetic Experiment. In International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. (pdf)

 

Development and Language Acquisition

Ji, Y., van Rij, J., & Taatgen, N. (2019). Discoveries of the Algebraic Mind: A PRIMs Model. In Proceedings of 17th International conference on cognitive modeling. (pdf)

Arslan, B., Verbrugge, R., & Taatgen, N. (2017). Cognitive control explains the mutual transfer between dimensional change card sorting and first-order false belief understanding: A computational modeling study on transfer of skills. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 20, 10-20.

Gittelson, L., & Taatgen, N. (2014). Transferrring primitive elements of skill within and between tasks. In Proceedings of the 36th annual meeting of the cognitive science society (pp. 529). Cognitive Science Society.

 

Neural Implementation

Taatgen, N.A. (2019). A Spiking Neural Architecture that Learns Tasks. In Proceedings of 17th International conference on cognitive modeling. (pdf).

 

Composition of Cognitive Skills

Hoekstra, C., Martens, S., & Taatgen, N. A. (2022). Testing the skill-based approach: Consolidation strategy impacts attentional blink performance. Plos one, 17(1), e0262350.

Hoekstra, C., Martens, S., & Taatgen, N.A. (2019). A Skill-based Approach to Modeling the Attentional Blink. In Proceedings of 17th International conference on cognitive modeling. (pdf).

Taatgen, N. (2014). Between architecture and model: Strategies for cognitive control. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 8, 132-139.

 

Distraction, Multitasking,  Mind Wandering and Mental Fatigue

Herlambang, M. B., Taatgen, N. A., & Cnossen, F. (2021). Modeling motivation using goal competition in mental fatigue studies. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 102, 102540.

Taatgen, N. A., van Vugt, M. K., Daamen, J., Katidioti, I., Huijser, S., & Borst, J. P. (2021). The resource-availability model of distraction and mind-wandering. Cognitive Systems Research, 68, 84-104.

Huijser, S., van Vugt, M. K., & Taatgen, N. A. (2018). The wandering self: Tracking distracting self-generated thought in a cognitively demanding context. Consciousness and Cognition, 58, 170-185.

Wan, J., & Taatgen, N. (2018). The Influence of Music and Music Familiarity on Time Perception. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2657-2662). Cognitive Science Society.

 

Language

Toth, A., Taatgen, N., Hendriks, P., & van Rij, J. (2021). Learning Reference Biases from Language Input: A Cognitive Modelling Approach. In International Conference on Cognitive Modeling 2021 (pp. 282-288). Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State.