The Architecture of Cognition
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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.
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Exposure to information and experience extends the existing knowledge structure, paralleling schema expansion.
“(Anderson, 2013; Carey, 1985) describe that exposure to information and experience extend the existing knowledge structure, paralleling the process of schema expansion.”
From Pre-Storage Reasoning for Episodic Memory: Shifting Inference Burden to Memory for Personalized Dialogue (2025) · cites this paper as Anderson, 2013
Five information types-extension, accumulation, specification, transformation, and connection-each cause a different type of modification in the underlying schema.
“we identify five information types- extension, accumulation, specification, transformation, and connectioneach of which causes a different type of modification in the underlying schema.”
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- Anderson, J. R.
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- Anderson, John R.
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