John R. Anderson

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John Robert Anderson (born August 27, 1947 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is an American psychologist of Canadian origin. He works with a focus on cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University .

Life

Anderson studied psychology at the University of British Columbia from 1964 to 1968 and received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1972 . He then taught at Yale University and the University of Michigan . Since 1978 he has been professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, and in 1983 he also accepted a chair in computer science there.

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Anderson is best known for developing the Adaptive Control of Thought (ACT) theory. This tries to bring together various elements of cognitive psychological research and thus to develop a complex psychological theory of the human mind. This theory is also intended to simulate the human mind as a computer program as cognitive architecture .

Prizes and awards

From 1988 to 1989, Anderson was President of the Cognitive Science Society . In 2004 he won the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition , and in 2006 he was the first recipient of the US $ 150,000 Dr. AH Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In 1999, Anderson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In the same year he also became a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), whose department of psychology he has headed since 2001. He has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2007 . In 2011 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal . For 2016 he was awarded the NAS's Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences .

literature

  • John R. Anderson: Cognitive Psychology . Heidelberg; Berlin: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2001 (3rd edition) Original title: Cognitive psychology and its implications. ISBN 3-8274-1024-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: John R. Anderson. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 13, 2018 .