research and eventually designed a cognitive architecture he eventually called ACT. He and his students were influenced by Allen Newell's use of the term "cognitive architecture". Anderson's lab used the term to refer to the ACT theory as embodied in a collection of papers and designs. (There was not a complete implementation of ACT at the time.)

In 1983 John R. Anderson published the seminal work in this area, entitled The Architecture of Cognition. One can distinguish