ACT-R

Publications about Practice and Retention

Anderson, J. R., Fincham, J. M. & Douglass, S. (1999). Practice and retention: A unifying analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1120-1136. [PDF] [Excel files] [info]

Danker, J. F., Gunn, P., & Anderson, J. R. (2007). Interference and repetition both impact left prefrontal cortex during recall. In The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, Tennessee, USA. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Gluck, K. A. (2004). Knowledge tracing for complex training applications: Beyond Bayesian mastery estimates. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 383-384). Orlando, FL: Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization. [PDF] [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. [PDF] [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. [PDF] [info]

Pavlik, P.I. & Anderson, J. R. (2008). Using a model to compute the optimal schedule of practice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14, 101-117. [info]

Pavlik, P. I., Jr., & Anderson, J. R. (2003). An ACT-R model of the spacing effect. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 177-182). Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg. [PDF] [info]

Pavlik, P. I., Jr., & Anderson, J. R. ( 2005). Practice and forgetting effects on vocabulary memory: An activation-based model of the spacing effect. Cognitive Science, 29, 559-586. [PDF][Model and Sequence Files] [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. [PDF] [info]

Pavlik, P. I., Jr., Presson, N., & Koedinger, K. R. (2007). Optimizing knowledge component learning using a dynamic structural model of practice. In proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. [PDF] [info]

Reder, L. M., Proctor, I., Anderson, J. R., Gyulai, F., Quinlan, J. J., & Oates, J. M. (2006). Midazolam does not inhibit association formation, just its storage and strengthening. Psychopharmacology, 188, 462-471. [info]

Ritter, F.E., & Schooler, L. J. (2001). The learning curve.  In W. Kintch, N. Smelser, P. Baltes, (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford, UK: Pergamon. [PDF] [info]

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