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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 2011 Dec 21;64(3):127–160. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2011.11.001

Table 2.

Summary of ACT-R model parameters

Process Parameter Value Description
Encoding tstim * Stimulus encoding time
tsignal 50 ms Response signal encoding time
Retrieval W 1.0 Total source activation
S 1.5 Maximum associative strength
F * Scales retrieval time
s * Controls the variability of activation noise
τ * or –∞ Activation threshold
Guessing tguess 50 ms Guessing time
bias 0.5 Bias to guess “yes”
Responding trespx * Response execution time
*

denotes free parameters