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8 - Constraints in Cognitive Architectures

from Part II - Cognitive Modeling Paradigms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2023

By
Niels Taatgen  and
John Anderson
Edited by
Ron Sun
Ron Sun
Affiliation:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
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Summary

Cognitive architectures are computational theories that attempt to cover as much of cognition as possible. Developers of cognitive architectures need to balance functionality of the theory against its explanatory and predictive power, which are often at odds with one another. This chapter discusses this balance with respect to working memory, cognitive performance, perceptual and motor systems, learning and neuroscience. It discusses which solutions six cognitive architectures offer to these areas, and illustrates this with a number of successful models.

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cognitive architectureslearningperformanceneuroscienceneural networkssymbolic theories
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The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences , pp. 275 - 300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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