Richard King Mellon Professor, Psychology and Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Phone: (412) 268-2788 Fax: (412) 268-2844 Email: ja@cmu.edu Individual Website: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ACT/people/ja.html

Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Interests

ACT-R is a computer simulation that has been used to model a wide variety of cognitive phenomena in the domains of attention, learning and memory, problem solving and language. Our current research has been directed to three goals. The first goal, relevant to education and training, involves having ACT-R learn from instruction and experience the way humans do. The second goal, relevant to design of displays and training systems, involves using modeling visual attention in complex dynamic displays, as revealed by eye movements. The third goal, relevant to understanding the neural basis of cognition, involves using fMRI imaging to identify brain correlates of ACT-R processes.

Recent Publications

• Anderson JR, Lebeiere C (Eds.): Atomic components of thought. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998.