{"pk":28843,"title":"Modelling mental imagery in the ACT-R cognitive architecture","subtitle":null,"abstract":"I present a novel approach to modelling spatial mental im-agery within the ACT-R cognitive architecture. The proposedmethod augments ACT-R’s representation of visual objects toenable the processing of spatial extent and incorporates a set oflinear and affine transformation functions to allow the manip-ulation of internal spatial representations. The assumptions ofthe modified architecture are then tested by using it to developmodels of two classic mental imagery phenomena: the mentalscanning study of Kosslyn, Ball, and Reiser (1978) and mentalrotation (Shepard & Metzler, 1971). Both models provide veryclose fits to human response time data.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Mental imagery; Mental rotation; Image scanning;ACT-R; Cognitive architectures."}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1526h35x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Peebles","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Huddersfield","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28843/galley/18714/download/"}]}