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The idea that the mind should be rigorously studied in modeling and simulation traces its intellectual roots to the landmark Newell, Shaw, and Simon (1958) paper, in which they proposed information processing models implemented in computer code as explanations of human problem solving capabilities. Fifteen years later Newell (1973) adopted the stronger position that these information processing models must be developed as unified theories of cognition in order to achieve the desired goal of understanding the human mind. In the nearly four decades since, this idea has motivated dozens of new research programs intending to develop integrating, unifying theories, sometimes called cognitive architectures ± see Byrne (2003), Gra