A Gentle Introduction to Soar, an Architecture for Human Cognition.

Abstract

Many intellectual disciplines contribute to the field of cognitive science: psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and artificial intelligence, to name just a few. Cognitive science itself originated in the desire to integrate expertise in these traditionally separate disciplines in order to advance our insight into cognitive phenomena - phenomena like problem solving, decision making, language, memory, and learning. Each discipline has a history of asking certain types of questions and accepting certain types of answers. And that, according to Allen Newell, a founder of the field of artificial intelligence, is both an advantage and a problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA314690

Entities

People

  • Jill F. Lehman
  • John E. Laird
  • Paul Rosenbloom

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Hierarchies
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Languages
  • Psychology
  • Thinking
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation