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Think globally, ask functionally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Erik M. Altmann
Erik M. Altmann*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI48824http://www.msu.edu/~ema
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ema@msu.edu
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Abstract:

The notion of functionality is appropriately central to the Newell Test but is also critical at a lower level, in development of cognitive sub-theories. I illustrate, on one hand, how far this principle is from general acceptance among verbal theoreticians, and, on the other hand, how simulation models (here implemented within ACT-R) seem to drive the functional question automatically.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 602 - 603
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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