Books by John R. Anderson

Cognitive Psychology takes students to the forefront of the field and introduces them to key discoveries of cognitive psychology.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Related to the earlier ACT production systems theory, this book's goal is to present evidence for the psychological reality of a production system model of mind. The text uses the analyses of Anderson to extend the scope of that theory. The accompanying disk us for use with LISP 2.0 on a Mac II.

Relevant to theory and research in cognitive science, this work focuses on Anderson's theory of cognitive architecture, Adaptive Control of Thought (ACT), which is a theory of the basic principles of operation built into the cognitive system.

Reflecting decades of research into ACT-R theory, this book seeks to display what the theory can do by collecting together and describing some of its in-house applications.