Editing ACT-R (section)

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| author = [[John Robert Anderson (psychologist)|John Robert Anderson]]
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| genre = [[Cognitive architecture]]
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'''ACT-R''' (pronounced /ˌækt ˈɑr/; short for "'''Adaptive Control of Thought—Rational'''") is a [[cognitive architecture]] mainly developed by [[John Robert Anderson (psychologist)|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.