Insights into Working Memory from The Perspective of The EPIC Architecture for Modeling Skilled Perceptual-Motor and Cognitive Human Performance.

Abstract

Computational modeling of human perceptual-motor and cognitive performance based on a comprehensive detailed information- processing architecture leads to new insights about the components of working memory. To illustrate how such insights can be achieved a precise production system model that uses verbal working memory for performing a serial memory-span task through a strategic phonological loop has been constructed with the Executive-Process/ Interactive-Control (EPIC) architecture of Kieras and Meyer. The model accounts well for empirical results from representative memory-span studies The success of this account stems from five central features of EPIC that may be compared and contrasted with those of other currently popular alternative theoretical frameworks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA338746

Entities

People

  • David E. Meyer
  • David Kieras
  • Shane T Mueller
  • Travis Seymour

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Health Services
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Motor Skills
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Task Performance And Analysis

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.