The Atomic Components of Thought

By John R. Anderson and Christian J. Lebiere

Book Overview

This book presents the newest evolution of Anderson's ACT theory, replete with applications to areas as analogical learning, action, choice, and cognitive arithmetic. For all cognitive scientists and advanced educational researchers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805828176
• ISBN13: 9780805828177
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A celebrated model of memory in cognitive science.

This book presents the latest version of ACT-R, which is at present the most elaborated and most widely applied formal model of human memory and complex cognitive performance. Anderson's ACT-R theory is the sort of theory Cognitive Science should aim at: comprehensive, compact and elegant. This book not only describes the theory, but also shows it is successful in many different domains of cognitive sience.