Abstract
The Tower of London (ToL for short) is a disk manipulation task extensively used and well-established as a neuropsychological diagnostic tool for assessing human planning ability in clinical and research contexts. Behavioral experiments have shown that planning in the ToL is substantially influenced by structural, visually observable task characteristics. This work presents an ACT-R model for three move ToL tasks which uses a spreading activation mechanism to explain differences in planning performance. Model evaluation is based on a task selection that accounted for systematic variations of task demands. Based on comparisons with empirically observed planning latencies and eye-movement patterns the explanation for human planning abilities in ToL is assessed and discussed.
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Albrecht, R., Ragni, M. (2014). Spatial Planning: An ACT-R Model for the Tower of London Task. In: Freksa, C., Nebel, B., Hegarty, M., Barkowsky, T. (eds) Spatial Cognition IX. Spatial Cognition 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8684. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_16
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