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Conceptual Spaces for Cognitive Architectures: A lingua franca for different levels of representation
Antonio LietoAntonio LietoAntonio LietoMarcello FrixioneAntonio ChellaAntonio Chellasubject
FOS: Computer and information sciencesConceptual SpaceCognitive Architectures; Cognitive modeling; Conceptual Spaces; Knowledge representation; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience; Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science - Artificial IntelligenceComputer scienceCognitive NeuroscienceExperimental and Cognitive Psychology02 engineering and technology050105 experimental psychologyCognitive modelingCognitive ArchitecturesConnectionismArtificial IntelligenceConceptual Spaces0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSoarCognitive ArchitectureRepresentation (mathematics)Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniCognitive scienceKnowledge level05 social sciencesCommon groundCognitionCLARIONDiagrammatic reasoningArtificial Intelligence (cs.AI)Knowledge representation020201 artificial intelligence & image processingThe Symbolicdescription
During the last decades, many cognitive architectures (CAs) have been realized adopting different assumptions about the organization and the representation of their knowledge level. Some of them (e.g. SOAR [Laird (2012)]) adopt a classical symbolic approach, some (e.g. LEABRA [O'Reilly and Munakata (2000)]) are based on a purely connectionist model, while others (e.g. CLARION [Sun (2006)] adopt a hybrid approach combining connectionist and symbolic representational levels. Additionally, some attempts (e.g. biSOAR) trying to extend the representational capacities of CAs by integrating diagrammatical representations and reasoning are also available [Kurup and Chandrasekaran (2007)]. In this paper we propose a reflection on the role that Conceptual Spaces, a framework developed by Peter G\"ardenfors [G\"ardenfors (2000)] more than fifteen years ago, can play in the current development of the Knowledge Level in Cognitive Systems and Architectures. In particular, we claim that Conceptual Spaces offer a lingua franca that allows to unify and generalize many aspects of the symbolic, sub-symbolic and diagrammatic approaches (by overcoming some of their typical problems) and to integrate them on a common ground. In doing so we extend and detail some of the arguments explored by G\"ardenfors [G\"ardenfors (1997)] for defending the need of a conceptual, intermediate, representation level between the symbolic and the sub-symbolic one.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-02 | Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures |