Machine generated contents note: I Background
1 Modelling Cognition
What is Cognitive Modelling?
A Sample Model
What Makes a Good Model?
The Rise of Cognitive Modelling
Modelling and Simulation
The Role of Cognitive Modelling
Further Benefits of Cognitive Modelling
Some Objections to Cognitive Modelling
Approaches to Cognitive Modelling
Strategies for the Use of Simulation
Closing Remarks
Further Reading
2 An Introduction to COGENT
COGENT: Principal Features
An Illustrative Task: Free Recall
Getting Started
Specifying Basic Experimenter Functions
The Modal Model in COGENT
Representation and Variable Binding
Augmenting the Experiment Environment
Extending the Modal Model
Further Reading
II Modelling in Specific Domains
Overview
3 Arithmetic: A Cognitive Skill
Cognitive Skills
Multicolumn Addition
Multicolumn Subtraction
General Discussion
Further Reading
Appendix: Rules for Execute Action
4 Problem Solving
The Psychology of Problem Solving
The Missionaries and Cannibals Problem
The Tower of Hanoi
Toward a General Problem Solver
Further Reading
5 Deductive Reasoning
Introduction
Basic Effects in Human Deductive Reasoning
Syllogistic Reasoning with Mental Models
Building a Mental Model
Revising a Mental Model
Project: Reasoning as Problem Solving
Syllogistic Reasoning with Euler Circles
General Discussion
Further Reading
6 Decision Making
The Psychology of Decision Making
Medical Diagnosis
Incorporating Cue Selection
Medical Diagnosis by Hypothesis Testing
Taking Stock
Further Reading
7 Sentence Processing
Background
A First Model
Towards Incremental Interpretation
Serial Parsing
Alternative Approaches to Sentence Processing
Further Reading
8 Executive Processes
The Domain of Executive Processes
Basic Psychological Findings
A Framework
Modelling the Supervisory Attentional System
Monitoring and the Six Element Test
Alternative Views of Executive Processes
Summary
Further Reading
III Reflections
9 Reflections
An Assessment of Progress
Emergent Issues
Methodologies for Modelling
Issues for COGENT
An Agenda
Closing Remarks.