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.)
- What are cognitive architectures and why are they important?
- The history of cognitive architectures: from early models to modern developments
- An overview of popular cognitive architectures
- The role of cognitive architectures in AI research
- The need for a complete cognitive architecture
- What makes a good cognitive architecture: the key features
- The current state of research in cognitive architectures
- The limitations of existing cognitive architectures
- The future of cognitive architectures and their potential applications
- Understanding the concept of world models in cognitive architectures
- The importance of grounding in cognitive architectures
- The role of self-awareness in cognitive architectures
- Representation of the self in cognitive architectures
- The need for a theory of mind in cognitive architectures
- The role of attention in cognitive architectures
- The role of memory in cognitive architectures
- The role of perception in cognitive architectures
- The role of language processing in cognitive architectures
- The role of reasoning in cognitive architectures
- The role of decision making in cognitive architectures
- The role of motivation in cognitive architectures
- The role of emotion in cognitive architectures
- The role of social interaction in cognitive architectures
- The role of creativity in cognitive architectures
- The role of ethics in cognitive architectures
- The role of culture in cognitive architectures
- The role of embodiment in cognitive architectures
- The role of interaction with the physical environment in cognitive architectures
- The role of evolution in cognitive architectures
- The interdisciplinary nature of cognitive architectures and their impact on related fields.