Cognitive Architectures
- Newell came up with the idea of Cognitive Architectures in
the 80s in Unified Theories of Cognition.
- A cognitive architecture is the core processing and memory
mechanisms of cognition. The program still needs to be
supplied.
- The two popular architectures are Soar (from Newell, Rosenbloom
and Laird) and
- ACT (ACT-R etc.) from Anderson and more recently Lebierre.
- I'm also fond of EPIC from Kieras and Meyer
- There are lots of others.
- These three (and lots of the others) are based around a rule
based system and an associative memory.
- They really are useful.
- ACT-R has been used for (I'm pretty sure) thousands of cognitive
models, and sometimes this even gets into policy (e.g. mobile
phone use).
- Soar has a spin off (that some of my doctoral budies work at)
called SoarTech. They make a lot of agents for military simulations.
