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Psychology

D-Index
130
Citations
156385
World Ranking
168
National Ranking
106

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award

Overview

John R. Anderson is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields within Computer Science, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware and Architecture, Computational Mechanics, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work involve Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques, Tensor Decomposition and Applications, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning, Child and Animal Learning Development, and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

John R. Anderson has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Large-Scale Discrete Fourier Transform on TPUs, 2021, IEEE Access
  • Cognitive & motor skill transfer across speeds: A video game study, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Large-Scale Discrete Fourier Transform on TPUs, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Discovering skill, 2021, Cognitive Psychology
  • A decay-based account of learning and adaptation in complex skills., 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Their frequent coauthors include Shawn Betts, Cvetomir M. Dimov, Francois Belletti, Davis King, and Jon M. Fincham. Their collaborative work contributes to the scientific corpus in various interdisciplinary areas.

John R. Anderson's work has appeared in several publication venues, most notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cognitive Science
  • IEEE Access
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cognitive Psychology

Their contributions advance knowledge in Computer Science, with a focused impact on understanding cognitive mechanisms and improving computational methods related to learning, skill acquisition, and optimization.

Best Publications

  • The Architecture of Cognition

    John R. Anderson

  • Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications

    John Robert Anderson

  • Acquisition of cognitive skill

    John R. Anderson

  • Human Associative Memory

    John R. Anderson;Gordon H. Bower

  • Language, Memory, and Thought

    John R. Anderson

  • Rules of the Mind

    John Robert Anderson

  • The Atomic Components of Thought

    John Robert Anderson;Christian Lebiere

  • An Integrated Theory of the Mind.

    John R. Anderson;Daniel Bothell;Michael D. Byrne;Scott Douglass

  • The will and the ways: development and validation of an individual-differences measure of hope.

    C. R. Snyder;Cheri Harris;John R. Anderson;Sharon A. Holleran

  • The Adaptive Character of Thought

    John R. Anderson

  • A spreading activation theory of memory.

    John R. Anderson

  • Intelligent tutoring systems

    John R. Anderson;C. Franklin Boyle;Brian J. Reiser

  • Cognitive Tutors: Lessons Learned

    John R. Anderson;Albert T. Corbett;Kenneth R. Koedinger;Ray Pelletier

  • Situated Learning and Education

    John R. Anderson;Lynne M. Reder;Herbert A. Simon

  • Learning and Memory: An Integrated Approach

    John Robert Anderson

  • Knowledge Tracing: Modeling the Acquisition of Procedural Knowledge

    Albert T. Corbett;John R. Anderson

  • The Transfer of Cognitive Skill

    Mark K. Singley;John R. Anderson

  • Skill Acquisition: Compilation of Weak-Method Problem Solutions.

    John R. Anderson

  • Arguments concerning representations for mental imagery.

    John R. Anderson

  • Intelligent Tutoring Goes To School in the Big City

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;John R. Anderson;William H. Hadley;Mary A. Mark

  • Cognitive Skills and Their Acquisition

    John R. Anderson

  • Architecture of Cognition

    John Robert Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynne M. Reder
Lynne M. Reder Carnegie Mellon University
Niels Taatgen
Niels Taatgen University of Groningen
Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
Gordon H. Bower
Gordon H. Bower Stanford University
Robert S. Lane
Robert S. Lane University of California, Berkeley
Randall C. O'Reilly
Randall C. O'Reilly University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Christian D. Schunn
Christian D. Schunn University of Pittsburgh
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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