Hybrid Reactive-Deliberative Behaviour in a Symbolic Dynamical Cognitive Architecture

Sequentiality and reactivity are features that have been deemed important for cognitive architectures[1]and recent emphasis has been put by the community on their development in cognitive architectures. However, the cooperation and competition dynamic between reactivity and sequentiality remains an open issue in the domain [2]. In this paper, we present a three level cognitive architecture for the simulation of human behaviour based on Stanovich’s Tripartite Framework [3], which provides an explanation of how reflective and adaptive human behaviour emerges from the interaction of three distinct cognitive levels. We use two classical psychological tasks to study the reactivity/sequentiality dynamic in our architecture. These show that the two features collaborate in interesting and psychologically plausible ways.