Extending the Soar Cognitive Architecture

Abstract

The original purpose of this research was to extend the Soar cognitive architecture based on knowledge gleaned from psychology and brain-based science. Specifically looking at extensions related to memory and learning (episodic, semantic) and emotion. The direction changed when an opportunity became available to collaborate with other biologically-inspired cognitive architecture (BICA) projects to design a completely new BICA called TOSCA. In addition to designing a new architecture, we also designed and implemented a framework that can be used to develop biologically-inspired cognitive architectures. The new framework is called STORM. Finally, throughout the development of TOSCA and STORM we continued the work on developing computational models of emotion. This work continued because even with the design of TOSCA, the exact role of emotion in cognitive architecture remains unclear.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA473738

Entities

People

  • John E. Laird

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Systems
  • Neurons
  • Neurosciences
  • Psychology
  • Self Organizing Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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