American cognitive psychologist who developed ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational) — a cognitive architecture that has been the most influential computational model of human cognition for over four decades.
ACT-R: a unified cognitive architecture implemented as a production system — procedural memory (if-then rules), declarative memory (chunks), and perceptual-motor modules. Has been used to model learning, problem solving, language, and brain activity. Anderson's rational analysis: cognitive mechanisms have evolved to be rational given the statistics of the environment.
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