TY - JFULL AU - Belkacem Chikhaoui and Helene Pigot and Mathieu Beaudoin and Guillaume Pratte and Philippe Bellefeuille and Fernando Laudares PY - 2009/8/ TI - Learning a Song: an ACT-R Model T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 1783 EP - 1789 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13197 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 31, 2009 N2 - The way music is interpreted by the human brain is a very interesting topic, but also an intricate one. Although this domain has been studied for over a century, many gray areas remain in the understanding of music. Recent advances have enabled us to perform accurate measurements of the time taken by the human brain to interpret and assimilate a sound. Cognitive computing provides tools and development environments that facilitate human cognition simulation. ACT-R is a cognitive architecture which offers an environment for implementing human cognitive tasks. This project combines our understanding of the music interpretation by a human listener and the ACT-R cognitive architecture to build SINGER, a computerized simulation for listening and recalling songs. The results are similar to human experimental data. Simulation results also show how it is easier to remember short melodies than long melodies which require more trials to be recalled correctly. ER -