Moral reasoning plays a significant but poorly understood role in human action and interaction. Although studied by philosophers for millennia, considerable confusion surrounds the topic. Computational cognitive architectures hold promise for shedding insight on how agents act and reason morally. We present a view of moral cognition and examine one implementation of that view in Icarus, a theor...

The original goals of the work described in the target paper were threefold. First, I wanted to encourage a direct confrontation of situated, embodied, and dynamical ideas with cognitive phenomena, in the hopes of furthering debate on the role of these ideas in cognitive science. Second, I wanted to describe a specific research methodology that could concretely ground such a debate, and to illu...

In this paper we present the rationale adopted for the integration of the knowledge level of Dual-PECCS, a cognitive system for conceptual representation and categorization, with two different cognitive architectures: SOAR and LIDA. In previous works we already showed how the representational and reasoning framework adopted inDual-PECCS was integrable with diverse cognitive architectures, i.e. ...

It would extend the world that cognitive models can see if models could interact based on an interface language. We introduce a system designed to allow cognitive models to interact with any display written in Tcl/Tk, a common interface creation language. This approach can be viewed as extending cognitive architectures to include eyes and hands that exist in the world of Tcl/Tk. This system is ...

Learning is a psychological experience one receives to make behavioral modifications to improve his/her capabilities while gaining knowledge or skills. Even though the traditional learning is a teachercentered pedagogical instruction, the modern learning framework is centered under a student-centered LMS and thus it is weak in cognitive, emotional, behavioral and social measures. Meanwhile, mor...

Episodic memory provides a mechanism for accessing past experiences and has been relatively ignored in computational models of cognition. In this paper, we present a framework for describing the functional stages for computational models of episodic memory: encoding, storage, retrieval and use of the retrieved memories. We present two implementations of a computational model of episodic memory ...

Navy watchstanding operations increasingly involve informationsaturated environments in which operators must attend to more than one critical task display at a time [1]. In response, the Navy is pursuing a model-based understanding of human performance in multitask settings. Empirical studies with a complex dual task and related cognitive modeling work in the authors’ lab suggest that auditory ...

This paper explores cognitively realistic social simulations by deploying the CLARION cognitive architecture in a simple organizational simulation, which involves the interaction of multiple cognitive agents. It argues for an integration of the two separate strands of research: cognitive modeling and social simulation. Such an integration could, on the one hand, enhance the accuracy of social s...

We investigate a general cognitive model of group behaviors, based on Festinger’s social comparison theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology theory. We describe two possible implementations of SCT process at an architectural level, on the basis of the Soar cognitive architecture. The first, which seems to follow directly from Festinger’s social comparison theory, treats the SCT process as an...

Human experiences are stored in episodic memory and are the basis for developing semantic narrative structures and many of the narratives we continually compose. Episodic memory has only recently been recognized as a necessary module in general cognitive architectures and little work has been done to examine how the data stored by these modules may be formulated as narrative structures. This pa...