ABSTRACT

Now available in paper, The Architecture of Cognition is a classic work that remains relevant to theory and research in cognitive science. The new version of Anderson's theory of cognitive architecture -- Adaptive Control of Thought (ACT*) -- is a theory of the basic principles of operation built into the cognitive system and is the main focus of the book.

chapter 1|44 pages

Production Systems and ACT

chapter 2|41 pages

Knowledge Representation

chapter 3|40 pages

Spread of Activation

chapter 4|45 pages

Control of Cognition

chapter 5|44 pages

Memory for Facts

chapter 6|46 pages

Procedural Learning

chapter 7|45 pages

Language Acquisition