A cognitive architecture mainly developed by John Robert Anderson at Carnegie Mellon University. as any other cognitive architecture, ACT-R aims to define the basic and irreducible cognitive and perceptual operations that enable the human mind. In theory, each task that humans can perform should consist of a series of these discrete operations.
Most of the ACT-R basic assumptions are also inspired by the progresses of cognitive neuroscience, and ACT-R can be seen and described as a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to produce cognition.