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| Original author(s) | John Robert Anderson |
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| Stable release | 7.21.6-<3099:2020-12-21>
/ December 21, 2020[1] |
| Written in | Common Lisp |
| Type | Cognitive architecture |
| License | GNU LGPL v2.1 |
| Website | act-r |
ACT-R (pronounced /ˌækt ˈɑr/; short for "Adaptive Control of Thought—Rational") is a cognitive architecture mainly developed by John Robert Anderson and Christian Lebiere at Carnegie Mellon University. Like any cognitive architecture, ACT-R aims to define the basic and irreducible cognitive and perceptual operations that enable the human mind. In theory, each task that humans can perform should consist of a series of these discrete operations.
Most of the ACT-R's basic assumptions are also inspired by the progress of cognitive neuroscience, and ACT-R can be seen and described as a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to produce cognition.
- ^ "ACT-R » Software". ACT-R.psy.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-24.