Extending Cognitive Architectures with Mental Imagery

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10.2991/agi.2009.13How to use a DOI?

Abstract

Inspired by mental imagery, we present results of extending a symbolic cognitive architecture (Soar) with general computational mechanisms to support reasoning with symbolic, quantitative spatial, and visual depictive representations. Our primary goal is to achieve new capabilities by combining and manipulating these representations using specialized processing units specific to a modality but independent of task knowledge. This paper describes the architecture supporting behavior in an environment where perceptual-based thought is inherent to problem solving. Our results show that imagery provides the agent with additional functional capabilities improving its ability to solve rich spatial and visual problems.

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© 2009, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Scott D. Lathrop
AU  - John E. Laird
PY  - 2009/06
DA  - 2009/06
TI  - Extending Cognitive Architectures with Mental Imagery
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 56
EP  - 61
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/agi.2009.13
DO  - 10.2991/agi.2009.13
ID  - Lathrop2009/06
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