Publications about Skill Acquisition

Belavkin, R. V., & Ritter, F. E. (2003). The use of entropy for analysis and control of cognitive models. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 21-26. Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg. [] [info]

Blessing, S. B. & Dronek, P. (2006). The effect of Einstellung on compositional processes. In proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2444) . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [] [info]

Brunstein, A., Betts, S. A., Anderson, J. R (unpublished). When minimal guidance does an does not work: Drill and kill makes discovery learning a success. [][discovery model] [info]

Chikhaoui, B., Pigot, H., Beaudoin, M., Pratte, G., Bellefeuille, P. & Laudares, F. (2009). Learning a song: an ACT-R Model. In proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence (pp. 405-410), Oslo, Norway. [] [info]

Fincham, J. M. & Anderson, J. R. (2006). Distinct roles of the anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex in acquisition and performance of a cognitive skill. Proceedings of the National Acedemy of Science, U. S. A., 103, 12941-12946. [] [info]

Fincham, J. M., Qin, Y., & Anderson, J. R. (2008). An fMRI study of cognitive demand and control during skill acquisition. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, p. 244. [info]

Fu, W.-T. & Anderson, J. (2008). Dual learning processes in interactive skill acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Applied. 14 (2), 179-191. [] [info]

Fu, W-T. & Anderson, J. R. (2006). From recurrent choice to skill learning: A reinforcement-learning model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135(2), 184-206. [] [info]

Fu, W.-T., Bothell, D., Douglass, S., Haimson, C., Sohn, M.-H., & Anderson, J. A. (2006), Toward a Real-Time Model-Based Training System. Interacting with Computers, 18(6), 1216-1230. [] [] [info]

Gray, W. D., Sims, C. R., Fu, W.-T., & Schoelles, M. J. (2006). The soft constraints hypothesis: A rational analysis approach to resource allocation for interactive behavior. Psychological Review, 113(3), 461-482. [] [info]

Janssen, C.P., Gray, W.D., & Schoelles, M.J. (2008). How a Modeler's Conception of Rewards Influences a Model's Behavior: Investigating ACT-R 6's Utility Learning Mechanism. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual ACT-R Workshop (p. 42), Pittsburgh, PA. [] [info]

Jastrzembski, T. S., Gluck, K. A., & Gunzelmann, G. (2006). Knowledge tracing and prediction of future trainee performance. In Proceedings of the 2006 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (pp. 1498-1508). Orlando, FL: National Training Systems Association. [] [info]

Kim, J. W., Koubek, R. J., & Ritter, F. E. (2007). Investigation of procedural skills degradation from different modalities. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. [] [info]

Lee, F. J. & Anderson, J. R. (1997). Learning to Act: Acquisition and optimization of procedural skill. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 418-423. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [] [info]

Lee, F. J. & Anderson, J. R. (2001). Does learning of a complex task have to be complex? A study in learning decomposition. Cognitive Psychology, 42(3), 267-316. [] [info]

Lee, F.J. & Taatgen, N.A. (2002). Multi-tasking as Skill Acquisition. Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual conference of the cognitive science society (pp. 572-577). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Fairfax, VA: August, 2002. [] [info]

Müller, B. & Schoppek, W. (2003). Acquisition and use of mental operators: Multinomial modeling versus ACT-R. In F. Schmalhofer, R.M. Young, & G. Katz (Eds.), Proceedings of EuroCogSci 03 (pp 241-246). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [] [info]

Pavlik, P. I., Jr., Presson, N., Dozzi, G., Wu, S.-M., MacWhinney, B., & Koedinger, K. (2007). The FaCT (fact and concept) system: A new tool linking cognitive science with educators. In proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN, USA. [] [info]

Salvucci, D. D., & Taatgen, N. A. (in press). Threaded cognition: An integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. Psychological Review. [] [info]

Stocco, A., Lebiere, C., & Anderson, J. R. (2008). Procedural Learning and Sequential Control of Behavior in a Neural Network Model of the Basal Ganglia. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, pp. 210-211. [] [info]

Stocco, A., Lebiere, C., & Anderson, J. R. (submitted). Conditional routing of information to the cortex: A model of the basal ganglia’s role in cognitive coordination. Psychological Review. [Model] [info]

Taatgen, N. A. (1999). A model of learning task-specific knowledge for a new task. In Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 730-735). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [] [info]

Taatgen, N. A. (1999). Learning without limits: from problem solving toward a unified theory of learning. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. [] [info]

Taatgen, N. A. (2002). A model of individual differences in skill acquisition in the Kanfer-Ackerman Air Traffic Control Task. Cognitive Systems Research, 3(1), 103-112. (ACT-R 4) [] [info]

Taatgen, N.A., Huss, D. & Anderson, J.R. (2008). The Acquisition of Robust and Flexible Cognitive Skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137(3), 548-565. [][Model for Experiment 2][Model for Experiment 1] [info]

Taatgen, N.A. & Lee, F.J. (2003). Production Compilation: A simple mechanism to model Complex Skill Acquisition. Human Factors, 45(1), 61-76. [] [info]

Wallach, D., & Lebiere, C. (2002). On the role of instances in complex skill acquisition. In Proceedings of the 43rd Conference of the German Psychological Association. [info]