Models

The following are ACT-R publications and references in which there is source code, data, or a web-based simulation available for the associated model.

Anderson, J. R. (2007) How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe? New York: Oxford University Press. [HTML] [Linear Equations] [Pyramid model] [Friedman model] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Anderson, J. F., Ferris, J. L., Fincham, J. M., & Jung, K-J. (submitted). Word puzzles produce distinct patterns of activation in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex. [] [Model] [info]

Anderson, J. R., & Betz, J. (2001). A hybrid model of categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 629-647. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulation and model source code] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Bothell, D., Lebiere, C. & Matessa, M. (1998). An integrated theory of list memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 341-380. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Budiu, R. & Reder, L. M. (2001). A theory of sentence memory as part of a general theory of memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 337-367. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations and model source code] [info]

Anderson, J.R., Byrne, D., Fincham, J., & Gunn, P. (2008). Role of Prefrontal and Parietal Cortices in Associative Learning. Cerebral Cortex, 18(4), 904-914. [] [Pair1 model] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Carter, C. S., Fincham, J. M., Qin, Y., Ravizza, S. M., & Rosenberg-Lee, M. (submitted). The image of complexity. Cognitive Science. [] [Model] [Model] [info]

Anderson, J. R. & Douglass, S. (2001). Tower of Hanoi: Evidence for the Cost of Goal Retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(6), 1331-1346. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations, model source code and experimental data spreadsheet] [info]

Anderson, J. R. & Douglass, S. (unpublished). Visual Attention and Problem Solving. [Excel files] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Fincham, J. M. & Douglass, S. (1999). Practice and retention: A unifying analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1120-1136. [] [Excel files] [info]

Anderson, J. R. & Lebiere, C. (1998). The atomic components of thought. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [Chapter abstracts, model source code, and web-based simulations] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Matessa, M., & Lebiere, C. (1997). ACT-R: A theory of higher level cognition and its relation to visual attention. Human Computer Interaction, 12(4), 439-462. [] [Excel files] [info]

Anderson, J. R. & Matessa, M. P. (1997). A production system theory of serial memory. Psychological Review, 104, 728-748. [] [Excel files and LISP code] [info]

Anderson, J. R. & Qin, Y. (in press). Using Brain Imaging to Extract the Structure of Complex Events at the Rational Time Band. Journal of Cognitive Neurscience. [] [Model] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Qin, Y., Jung, K-W., & Carter, C. S. (2007). Information-Processing Modules and their Relative Modality Specificity, Cognitive Psychology, 54(3), 185-217 [HTML] [model information] [info]

Anderson, J. R., Qin, Y., Sohn, M-H., Stenger, V. A. & Carter, C. S. (2003) An information-processing model of the BOLD response in symbol manipulation tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 10, 241-261. [] [ACT-R 5.0 web-based simulations and model source code] [info]

Anderson, J. R. & Reder, L. M. (1999). The fan effect: New results and new theories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 186-197. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations] [info]

Budiu, R. and Anderson, J. R. (2001). Word Learning in Context: Metaphors and Neologisms. (Technical Report No. CMU-CS-01-147.) School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulation and Excel files] [info]

Budiu, R. & Anderson, J. R. (2004). Interpretation-Based Processing: A Unified Theory of Semantic Sentence Processing. Cognitive Science 28, 1-44. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations and model source code] [info]

Danker, J. F. & Anderson, J. R. (2007). The roles of prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex in algebra problem-solving: A case of using cognitive modeling to inform neuroimaging data. Neuroimage, 35, 1365-1377. [] [Models] [info]

Gluck, K. A., Lovett, M. C., Anderson, J. R., & Shute, V. J. (unpublished). The Curriculum and the Interface: A Componential Analysis of the Learning Curve. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulation and model source code] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (2002). Strategic differences in the coordination of different views of space. In W. D. Gray and C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 387-392). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [] [ACT-R 5.0 model source code] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (2003). Problem solving: Increased planning with practice. Cognitive Systems Research, 4, 57-76. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulation and model source code] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., Anderson, J. R., & Douglass, S. (2004). Orientation Tasks Involving Multiple Views of Space: Strategies and Performance. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4(3), 209-256. [] [ACT-R 5.0 web-based simulation, model source code, and abstract] [info]

Kao, Y. S., Douglass, S. A., Fincham, J. M., & Anderson, J. R. (submitted). Traveling the Second Bridge: Using fMRI to Assess an ACT-R Model of Geometry Proof. [] [Model] [info]

Lebiere, C. (1999). The dynamics of cognition: An ACT-R model of cognitive arithmetic. Kognitionswissenschaft., 8 (1), pp. 5-19. [] [Abstract and Model Simulations] [info]

Lebiere, C., & West, R. L. (1999). A dynamic ACT-R model of simple games. In Proceedings of the Twenty-first Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 296-301. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulation and model source code] [info]

Matessa, M., & Anderson, J. R. (2000). Modelling Focused Learning in Role Assignment. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15 (3), 263-292. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations and models source code] [info]

Matessa, M. P. (unpublished). Communication in collaborative problem solving. [ACT-R 4.0 model source code] [info]

Murdock, J. W. , Simina, M., Davies, J., & Shippey, G. (1998). Modeling Invention by Analogy in ACT-R. In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 740-745). Mawhaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [ACT-R model source code and postscript paper] [info]

Pavlik, P. I., Jr., & Anderson, J. R. ( 2005). Practice and forgetting effects on vocabulary memory: An activation-based model of the spacing effect. Cognitive Science, 29, 559-586. [] [Model and Sequence Files] [info]

Petrov, A. & Anderson, J. R. (2005). The dynamics of scaling: A memory-based anchor model of category rating and absolute identification. Psychological Review 112,(2) 383-416. [] [HTML] [Matlab ANCHOR model] [info]

Salvucci, D. D., & Anderson, J. R. (2001). Integrating analogical mapping and general problem solving: The path-mapping theory. Cognitive Science, 25, 67-110. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations and models source code] [info]

Sohn, M.-H., & Anderson, J. R. (2001). Task preparation and task repetition: Two-component model of task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [] [ACT-R 4.0 web-based simulations and model source code] [info]

Stocco, A. & Anderson, J. R. (in press) Endogenous control and task representation: An fMRI study in algebraic problem solving. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [] [Model] [info]

Taatgen, N.A. & Anderson, J.R. (2002). Why do children learn to say "broke"? A model of learning the past tense without feedback. Cognition, 86(2), 123-155. [] [ACT-R 4.0 model source code] [info]

Taatgen, N.A., Huss, D. & Anderson, J.R. (submitted). The Acquisition of Robust and Flexible Cognitive Skills. [] [Model for Experiment 1] [Model for Experiment 2] [info]

Taatgen, N. & van Rijn, H. & Anderson, J. R. (submitted). An Integrated Theory of Prospective Time Interval Estimation: The Role of Cognition, Attention and Learning [] [LISP model files] [info]