The Soar Cognitive Architecture and Human Working Memory
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چکیده
(3) Soar does not currently include any capacity limits on its dynamic memory (SDM), but is compatible with certain such limitations. In particular, a constraint that SDM can hold at most two items of the same “type” (suitably defined) yields a coherent explanation for many psycholinguistic phenomena in the comprehension of sentences. This constraint is motivated by computational efficiency concerns, and embodies the general principle of similarity-based interference (Baddeley & Logie; Cowan; Schneider; and O’Reilly, Braver & Cohen — all in this volume).
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