Analysis of Enumeration Strategy Use in the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture

Cognitive architectures as unified cognitive theories can produce an integrated explanation of human mind and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to suggest a developmental direction in ACT-R based on the effect of enumeration strategy use on visual stimuli counting task For this purpose, counting time of stimuli set size in various enumeration conditions was measured. The results showed that the knowledge of set size affected on enumeration strategy which in turn reduced counting time for relatively larger set size of 7 to 9 items. In addition, this tendency was repeatedly observed in the experimental conditions where amount of counting practice was varied. Based on the results of the experiments, a new ACT-R algorithm on visual stimuli enumeration was proposed.