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- ↑ See the list of Rumelhart prize winners on the Cognitive Science Society website Archived December 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ See the list of prize winners at the Heineken Prize page website.
- ↑ "Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science". Franklin Institute. 2011. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
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- ↑ "ACT-R » Publications » Brain Regions Engaged by Part- and Whole-task Performance in a Video Game: A Model-based Test of the Decomposition Hypothesis".
