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A Basis for Cognitive Machines

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Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006 (ICANN 2006)

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We propose a general attention-based approach to thinking and cognition (more specifically reasoning and planning) in cognitive machines as based on the ability to manipulate neural activity in a virtual manner so as to achieve certain goals; this can then lead to decisions to make movements or to no actions whatever. The basic components are proposed to consist of forward/inverse model motor control pairs in an attention-control architecture, in which buffers are used to achieve sequencing by recurrence of virtual actions and attended states. How this model can apply to various reasoning paradigm will be described and first simulations presented using a virtual robot environment.

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  1. Dept of Mathematics, King’s College London, UK

    J. G. Taylor, S. Kasderidis, P. Trahanias & M. Hartley

  2. Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete

    J. G. Taylor, S. Kasderidis, P. Trahanias & M. Hartley

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, GR-157 80, Zographou, Greece

    Stefanos D. Kollias

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780, Zographou, Greece

    Andreas Stafylopatis

  3. Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

    Włodzisław Duch

  4. Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology, HUT, P.O. Box 5400, 02015, Finland

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Taylor, J.G., Kasderidis, S., Trahanias, P., Hartley, M. (2006). A Basis for Cognitive Machines. In: Kollias, S.D., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., Oja, E. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006. ICANN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11840817_60

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