ONR Complex Cognition Project

As of September 26, 2012: eCortex, Inc. was awarded a 5-year, $2,000,000 contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The contract, titled Neural Mechanisms of Human Adaptive Executive Control, involves the creation integrated neural network models of human executive function.  These integrated models will use ACT-R production system models of human thought to "scaffold" the sophosticated executive function capabilities of realistic, brain style neural networks.  This ACT-R integration is in collaboration with Christian Lebiere and his team at Carnegie Mellon University. The target domain is instructed assembly, similar to that performed by a child assembling a modular toy.  The program seeks to leverage the most sophisticated existing models of human planning to better understand how people succeed and fail at complex tasks.

​Office of Naval Research contract number D00014-12-C-0638.  This summary should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of ONR or the U.S. Government.