A Gentle Introduction to Soar , an Architecture for Human Cognition : 2006 Update ∗

A Gentle Introduction to Soar , an Architecture for Human Cognition : 2005 Update

A Gentle Introduction to Soar, an Architecture for Human Cognition

Toward a Soar Theory of Taking Instructions for Immediate Reasoning Tasks

Soar is a theory of human cognition [New89], embodied in a computer system. Soar specifies the cognitive architecture, which is the relatively fixed set of mechanisms that permit goals and knowledge of the task environment to be encoded in memory and brought to bear to produce behavior. Soar is proposed as a unified theory of cognition, and it has been applied to human behavior in a broad spect...

Cognitive Architectures as Lakatosian Research Programs: Two Case Studies

Cognitive architectures—task-general theories of the structure and function of the complete cognitive system—are sometimes argued to be more akin to frameworks or belief systems than scientific theories. The argument stems from the apparent non-falsifiability of existing cognitive architectures. Newell was aware of this criticism and argued that architectures should be viewed not as theories su...

Three Types of Emotional Effects That Will Occur in a Cognitive Architecture like Soar Workshop on Architectures Underlying Motivation and Emotion

Introduction and abstract ˆ This short paper is offered as a foil to those produced by real thinkers about emotions.1 It is also a chance for me to think about something new, for I haven't studied emotions before, although I have spent considerable time thinking about cognitive architectures. We will find that emotions will be and must be incorporated into architectures for cognition, that both...