The Atomic Components of Thought

by John R. Anderson and Christian J. Lebiere

Book Overview

This book achieves a goal that was set 25 years ago when the HAM theory of human memory was published. This theory reflected one of a number of then-current efforts to create a theory of human cognition that met the twin goals of precision and complexity. Up until then the standard for precision had been the mathematical theories of the 1950s and 1960s. These theories took the form of precise models of specific experiments along with some informal,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805828176
• ISBN13: 9780805828177
• Release Date: July 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.