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Publications about Tower of Hanoi

Altmann, E. M. & Trafton, J. G. (1999). Memory for goals: An architectural perspective. In Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 19-24). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. [PDF] [info]

Altmann, E. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2002). Memory for goals: An activation-based model. Cognitive Science, 26, 39-83. [PDF] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Albert, M. V., & Fincham, J.M. (2005) Tracing Problem Solving in Real Time: fMRI Analysis of the Subject-Paced Tower of Hanoi. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 1261-1274. [PDF] [info]

Anderson, J. R. & Douglass, S. (2001). Tower of Hanoi: Evidence for the Cost of Goal Retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(6), 1331-1346. [PDF] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations, model source code and experimental data spreadsheet] [info]

Fum, D. & Del Missier, F. (2001). Adaptive selection of problem solving strategies. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 313-318. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (2000). Strategies and subgoals: Planning and execution in the Tower of Hanoi. Abstracts of the Psychonomics Society, 5, 42. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (2001). An ACT-R Model of the Evolution of Strategy Use and Problem Difficulty. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pp. 109-114. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (2003). Problem solving: Increased planning with practice. Cognitive Systems Research, 4, 57-76. [PDF] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulation and model source code] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Blessing, S. B. (2000). Why are some problems easy? New insights into the Tower of Hanoi. In L. R. Gleitman and A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1029). Mahwah: NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [info]

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