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    "pk": 29354,
    "title": "Toward Unifying Cognitive Architecture and Neural Task Set Theories",
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    "abstract": "PRIMs theory describes a computational foundation for un-derstanding task-general human learning and transfer usingrule-based cognitive architectures. Integration with ACT-Rhas yielded Actransfer, a model that replicates human learn-ing and transfer across many tasks. However, this model re-quires task-specific latency scaling parameters from ACT-Rto model different tasks, implying that there is missing com-putation in the theory. Neuroscience literature has separatelydefined the “task set” as the neural encoding that configuresstimulus-response rule behavior in working memory. The pro-cess of switching between different task sets is often used toexplain human latency costs. This paper introduces an alter-nate instantiation of PRIMs theory that enacts task set process-ing to account for the missing computation via a novel memorystructure called a procedure context. Human tasks of varyingcomplexity are modeled across two experiments. Procedurecontexts model human latencies and interference effects in alltasks by integrating latency, decision making, task representa-tion, and learning as aspects of a single unified process. Thisapproach offers promise for future modeling within cognitivescience by uniting theories from neuroscience and cognitivearchitectures.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "task set; cognitive modeling; cognitive architec-ture; Soar; PRIMs; PROPs; task switching; learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Choices and Decisions",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Bryan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Stearns",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Michigan",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "E.",
            "last_name": "Laird",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Michigan",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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