Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)

Extending Cognitive Architectures with Mental Imagery

Authors
Scott D. Lathrop, John E. Laird
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Scott D. Lathrop
Available Online June 2009.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
June 2009
ISBN
10.2991/agi.2009.13
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1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/agi.2009.13How to use a DOI?
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© 2009, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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