Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I Background -- 1 Modelling Cognition -- What is Cognitive Modelling? -- A Sample Model -- What Makes a Good Model? -- The Rise of Cognitive Modelling -- Modelling and Simulation -- The Role of Cognitive Modelling -- Further Benefits of Cognitive Modelling -- Some Objections to Cognitive Modelling -- Approaches to Cognitive Modelling -- Strategies for the Use of Simulation -- Closing Remarks -- Further Reading -- 2 An Introduction to COGENT -- COGENT: Principal Features -- An Illustrative Task: Free Recall -- Getting Started -- Specifying Basic Experimenter Functions -- The Modal Model in COGENT -- Representation and Variable Binding -- Augmenting the Experiment Environment -- Extending the Modal Model -- Further Reading -- II Modelling in Specific Domains -- Overview -- 3 Arithmetic: A Cognitive Skill -- Cognitive Skills -- Multicolumn Addition -- Multicolumn Subtraction -- General Discussion -- Further Reading -- Appendix: Rules for Execute Action -- 4 Problem Solving -- The Psychology of Problem Solving -- The Missionaries and Cannibals Problem -- The Tower of Hanoi -- Toward a General Problem Solver -- Further Reading -- 5 Deductive Reasoning -- Introduction -- Basic Effects in Human Deductive Reasoning -- Syllogistic Reasoning with Mental Models -- Building a Mental Model -- Revising a Mental Model -- Project: Reasoning as Problem Solving -- Syllogistic Reasoning with Euler Circles -- General Discussion -- Further Reading -- 6 Decision Making -- The Psychology of Decision Making -- Medical Diagnosis -- Incorporating Cue Selection -- Medical Diagnosis by Hypothesis Testing -- Taking Stock -- Further Reading -- 7 Sentence Processing -- Background -- A First Model -- Towards Incremental Interpretation -- Serial Parsing -- Alternative Approaches to Sentence Processing -- Further Reading -- 8 Executive Processes -- The Domain of Executive Processes -- Basic Psychological Findings -- A Framework -- Modelling the Supervisory Attentional System -- Monitoring and the Six Element Test -- Alternative Views of Executive Processes -- Summary -- Further Reading -- III Reflections -- 9 Reflections -- An Assessment of Progress -- Emergent Issues -- Methodologies for Modelling -- Issues for COGENT -- An Agenda -- Closing Remarks.