MindModeling@Home is an inactive non-profit,

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research project for the advancement of cognitive science. MindModeling@Home is hosted by

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and the

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in Dayton, Ohio. In

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, it is in the area of Cognitive Science and category called Cognitive science and artificial intelligence. It can only operate on a 64-bit operating system, preferably on a computer with multiple cores, running a

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, or

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operating system. This project is not compatible with mobile devices, unlike other projects on BOINC.

Research focus

* N-2 Repetition: understanding how people have a harder time returning to a task from another one * Observing how people read through their eye movement for the purpose of helping people reduce eye strain and processing what they read better and faster. * Modeling decision-making: resolving around decisions made from visual processing (focus and filtering) * Integrated Learning Models (ILM) to create algorithms based on how people learn and make decisions * How the brain performs tasks sequentially and simultaneously by measuring its blood flow

Problems

* Its status is inactive. However, it is "not down or closed," as its servers are still running. * The projects are long; prolonged amounts of computing time can overheat a computer. The solution is to stop work on the project until the computer cools down. * It is subject to power outages, as seen on October 7, 2018 * When the website will be out of ''beta'' mode is unknown, as it has been in beta since 2007

Scientific results

# Godwin H.J., Walenchok S. et al. Faster than the speed of rejection: Object identification processes during visual search for multiple targets. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 41-4, (2016). # Moore L. R., Gunzelmann G. An interpolation approach for fitting computationally intensive models. Cognitive Systems Research 19, (2014). # Moore L.R. Cognitive model exploration and optimization: a new challenge for computational science. Comput Math Organ Theory 17, 296–313. (2011). # Moore L.R., Kopala M., Mielke T. et al. Simultaneous performance exploration and optimized search with volunteer computing. 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, (2010). # Harris J., Gluck K.A., Moore L.R. MindModeling@Home. . . and Anywhere Else You Have Idle Processors. 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, (2009). # Gluck K., Scheutz M
Combinatorics meets processing power: Large-scale computational resources for BRIMS
16th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, BRIMS. 1. 73-83. (2007).

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