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Cognitive architecture
Overview
A cognitive architecture is both a theory about the structure of the human mind and a computational instantiation of such a theory used in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational cognitive science. These formalized models can be used to further refine comprehensive theories of cognition and serve as the frameworks for useful artificial intelligence programs. Successful cognitive architectures include ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought – Rational) and SOAR.
The research on cognitive architectures as software instantiation of cognitive theories was initiated by Allen Newell in 1990.
A theory for a cognitive architecture is an "hypothesis about the fixed structures that provide a mind, whether in natural or artificial systems, and how they work together — in conjunction with knowledge and skills embodied within the architecture — to yield intelligent behavior in a diversity of complex environments."
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Cognitive architecture
Related ideas
- Cognition
- Artificial intelligence
- Germany
- Herbert A. Simon
- Learning
- Marvin Minsky
- Holism
- Connectionism
- Stanford University
- Allen Newell
- Turing machine
- Memory
- University of Michigan
- Symbol
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Computational theory of mind
- Decentralization
- Atomism
- Computation
- Rodney Brooks
- Algorithm
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Karl H. Pribram
- John Robert Anderson (psychologist)
Place in the tradition
Part of Consciousness.