ACT-R (pronounced act-ARE: Adaptive Control of Thought--Rational) is a cognitive architecture mainly developed by John Robert Anderson 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 basic assumptions are also inspired by the progresses of cognitive neur… (More on Act-r)