He is known for developing ACT-R, which is the most widely used cognitive architecture in cognitive science. Anderson was also an early leader in research on intelligent tutoring systems. Computer systems based on his cognitive tutors currently teach mathematics to over 500,000 children in American schools. He has published a number of books including Human Associative Memory (1973 with Gordon Bower), Language, Memory, and Thought (1976), The Architecture of Cognition (1983), The Adaptive Character of Thought (1990), Rules of the Mind (1993), The Atomic Components of Thought (1998 with Christian Lebiere), and How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe? (2007). His current research interest is focused on combining cognitive modeling and brain imaging to understand the processes of mathematical learning.


RESEARCH INTERESTS
The following topics in Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence:
Learning and Memory
Cognitive Architecture
Problem Solving
Intelligent Tutoring
fMRI Brain Imaging