{"pk":31424,"title":"MusicSoar: Soar as an Architecture for Music Cognition","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Newell (1990) argued that the time is ripe for unified theories of cognition that encompass the full scope of cognitive phenomena. Newell and his colleagues (Newell, 1990; Laird, NeweU & Rosenbloom, 1987) have proposed Soar as a candidate theory. W e are exploring the application of Soar to the domain of music cognition. MusicSoar is a theory of the cognitive processes in music perception. A n important feature of MusicSoar is that it attempts to satisfy the real-time constraints of music perception within the Soar framework. If MusicSoar is a plausible model of music cognition, then it indicates that much of a listener's ability is based on a kind of memory-based reasoning involving pattern recognition and fast retrieval of information from memory: Soar's problem-solving methods of creating subgoals are too slow for routine perception, but they are involved in creating the knowledge in long-term memory that then can meet the processing demands of music in real time.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fm943t2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Don","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Scarborough","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brooklyn College of the City University of New York","department":""},{"first_name":"Peter","middle_name":"","last_name":"Manolios","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brooklyn College of the City University of New York","department":""},{"first_name":"Jacqueline","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Jones","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brooklyn College of the City University of New York","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1992-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31424/galley/22493/download/"}]}