{"pk":26785,"title":"Game-XP: Action Games as Cognitive Science Paradigms","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Why games? How could anyone consider action gamesas experimental paradigms for Cognitive Science? In 1973,as one of three strategies he proposed for advancing Cogni-tive Science, Allen Newell exhorted us to “accept a singlecomplex task and do all of it.” More specifically, he told usthat rather than taking an “experimental psychology as usualapproach” that, we should “focus on a series of experimentaland theoretical studies around a single complex task” so as todemonstrate that our theories of human cognition were pow-erful enough to explain, “a genuine slab of human behavior”with the studies fitting into a detailed theoretical picture. Ac-tion games represent the type of experimental paradigms thatNewell was advocating and the current state of programmingexpertise and laboratory equipment, along with the emer-gence of Big Data (Griffiths, 2015) and Naturally OccurringData Sets (NODS, Goldstone & Lupyan, 2016), provide thetechnologies and data needed to realize his vision. ActionGames enable us to escape from our field’s regrettable fo-cus on novice performance to develop theories that accountfor the full range of expertise through a twin focus on ex-pertise sampling (across individuals) and longitudinal studies(within individuals) of simple and complex tasks.This Symposium is inspired by the recent Action Gamesas Experimental Paradigms for Cognitive Science (Game-XP), issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS), April2017. It includes late-breaking work from some of the re-searchers represented in that topic as well as new work bynew researchers.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":" "}],"section":"Symposia","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37x479m5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Wayne","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Gray","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute","department":""},{"first_name":"Ray","middle_name":"","last_name":"Perez","name_suffix":"","institution":"Office of Naval Research","department":""},{"first_name":"Martin","middle_name":"V.","last_name":"Butz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universität Tübingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Stuart","middle_name":"","last_name":"Reeves","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Nottingham","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Sangster","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute","department":""},{"first_name":"Tom","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stafford","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Sheffield","department":""},{"first_name":"Fernand","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gobet","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Liverpool","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26785/galley/16421/download/"}]}