One great resource of cognitive modelling papers I’ve recently discovered is Gary Cottrell’s collection of Cognitive Modeling Greatest Hits. The description on the page reads:

This is a list of cognitive modeling papers solicited from a wide range of cognitive modelers, by asking them the following: “I wonder if you would do me the honor of sending me a list of your top 2-5 favorite cognitive modeling papers. I would expect that 1-3 of these would be your papers, and 1-3 would be someone else’s. I am looking for papers where someone really nailed the phenomenon, whatever it is. I would lean towards more recent papers, but oldies but goodies are ok too.”

I’ve only read a fraction of the papers on the list, but among those are some of my favourites. There are also a large number of articles that look quite interesting that I’ve never come across before. All up, I think it’s a great list, it highlights historical papers whose ideas are still relevant to cognitive scientists today, as well as identifying interesting ideas that have emerged in the last 5 years or so. In getting up to speed with the literature on cognitive modelling, I’m going to attempt to read as many of these papers I can in the coming months, so expect numerous posts discussing the finer aspects of cognitive models!

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