This framework was selected rather than newer or more task-specific frameworks as it is the same underlying memory model of ACT-R, which has been used to explain a wide variety of language phenomena (e.g., Vasishth and Lewis, 2004;Reitter et al., 2011), but also has been used to explain everything from decision-making (e.g., Marewski and Mehlhorn, 2011) to visual attention in graphical user interfaces (e.g., Byrne et al., 1999).
by using this model, our work naturally builds upon a large body of work, using the same mechanisms to explain a variety of tasks.