A Reader's Guide to the Cognitive Architectures Document
This document is provided as an introduction to new readers and users
of the Cognitive Architectures
document(*). The primary purpose of the
document is to provide a
quick and gentle introduction to a number of
different cognitive architectures.
Of interest to more experienced
readers will be the contextual links(*)
used to connect related ideas
within and between architectures. We use the term
cognitive
architecture more generally than is often used the literature of
Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. In particular, many of
the architectures introduced in the document makes no claim about any
particular neuroscientific or
psychological validity. Thus, the architectures are more generally
agent architectures than cognitively-plausible ones.
This document was developed from a number of similar documents that
were written as part of the course requirements for EECS 547,
Cognitive Architectures, at the University of Michigan (Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). The
authors of both the original documents
and this document are graduate and undergraduate students at
the University of Michigan.
Note: The terms node, link, document,
contextual, and non-contextual are
defined in a
separate node.
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