# ACT-R: A Cognitive Architecture for Developing Cognitive Models

- **Author**: John R. Anderson
- **Year**: 2007
- **Summary**: This work details the ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought—Rational) cognitive architecture, a comprehensive theory of human cognition implemented as a running computer simulation. It models how different cognitive resources like memory, attention, and problem-solving interact. In this view, creativity is not a single module but an emergent property of the entire cognitive system working together.
- **Link**: https://act-r.cmu.edu/publication/act-r-a-cognitive-architecture-for-developing-cognitive-models/