Carleton Cognitive Modelling Lab

The CCMSuite is a collection of integrated software tools which support the creation and analysis of computational models of cognitive activity.

New Users

Welcome to the CCMSuite documentation site. This website is currently being expanded from its original purpose of serving the needs of the students in the workshop course devoted to this modelling tool kit. The intent is that this site will become the central repository for our modelling work, including numerous tutorials and implemented versions of a variety of models.

To facilitate this process, if you are at all interested in learning more about the system, please email me (Terry Stewart) at terry@ccmlab.ca. A brief description of your interests would be useful, as that will encourage me to produce more detailed tutorials and examples.

Thank you, and I hope you find this set of tools as useful and rewarding as I have.

Getting Started

• The One-Page Guide to Computational Cognitive Modelling
• Installing Python: The programming language used by CCMSuite
• Installation: How to install CCMSuite
• Slides from the CCMSuite talk at CogSci 2006

Documentation

• Introduction to Python ACT-R
• Simple ACT-R Models
• Environment Creation
• Complex ACT-R Models: Rock Paper Scissors
• Making 2D Grid World Environments for ACT-R

Papers and Published Models

• Stewart, T. C., West, R.L. (2007) Equivalence: A Novel Basis for Model Comparison. 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Stewart, T. C., West, R.L. (2007) Cognitive Redeployment in ACT-R: Salience, Vision, and Memory. 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling.

Further Information

• Publications
• Terry Stewart's Thesis