The Status Quo of Cognitive Architectures

Having spend quite some time thinking about crystallizing the main knowledge about Cognitive Architectures, I came up with a structure of a short online book about CAs. Over the next days / weeks, I will dedicate to each of these headlines a short article to help you grasping the core good-to-knows about Cognitive Architectures.

(Disclaimer: I try to set up each chapter in a self-contained way, thus you may find some of the information redundant. On the other hand: repetition helps learning, and if you want to know something specific, you don’t have to go through the entire book to understand what it refers to.)

  1. What are cognitive architectures and why are they important?
  2. The history of cognitive architectures: from early models to modern developments
  3. An overview of popular cognitive architectures
  4. The role of cognitive architectures in AI research
  5. The need for a complete cognitive architecture
  6. What makes a good cognitive architecture: the key features
  7. The current state of research in cognitive architectures
  8. The limitations of existing cognitive architectures
  9. The future of cognitive architectures and their potential applications
  10. Understanding the concept of world models in cognitive architectures
  11. The importance of grounding in cognitive architectures
  12. The role of self-awareness in cognitive architectures
  13. Representation of the self in cognitive architectures
  14. The need for a theory of mind in cognitive architectures
  15. The role of attention in cognitive architectures
  16. The role of memory in cognitive architectures
  17. The role of perception in cognitive architectures
  18. The role of language processing in cognitive architectures
  19. The role of reasoning in cognitive architectures
  20. The role of decision making in cognitive architectures
  21. The role of motivation in cognitive architectures
  22. The role of emotion in cognitive architectures
  23. The role of social interaction in cognitive architectures
  24. The role of creativity in cognitive architectures
  25. The role of ethics in cognitive architectures
  26. The role of culture in cognitive architectures
  27. The role of embodiment in cognitive architectures
  28. The role of interaction with the physical environment in cognitive architectures
  29. The role of evolution in cognitive architectures
  30. The interdisciplinary nature of cognitive architectures and their impact on related fields.