A Review of 40 Years of Cognitive Architecture Research: Core Cognitive Abilities and Practical Applications
Iuliia Kotseruba, John K. Tsotsos

TL;DR
This comprehensive review covers 40 years of cognitive architecture research, highlighting core cognitive abilities, practical applications, and recent trends across nearly 85 architectures and 900 projects, emphasizing diversity and ongoing development.
Contribution
It provides an inclusive, high-level overview of cognitive architectures, focusing on core abilities and practical applications, and introduces visualization of field-wide development trends.
Findings
49 architectures are actively developed
Over 900 practical projects implemented
Diverse disciplines influence current architectures
Abstract
In this paper we present a broad overview of the last 40 years of research on cognitive architectures. Although the number of existing architectures is nearing several hundred, most of the existing surveys do not reflect this growth and focus on a handful of well-established architectures. Thus, in this survey we wanted to shift the focus towards a more inclusive and high-level overview of the research on cognitive architectures. Our final set of 84 architectures includes 49 that are still actively developed, and borrow from a diverse set of disciplines, spanning areas from psychoanalysis to neuroscience. To keep the length of this paper within reasonable limits we discuss only the core cognitive abilities, such as perception, attention mechanisms, action selection, memory, learning and reasoning. In order to assess the breadth of practical applications of cognitive architectures we…
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TopicsCognitive Science and Mapping · AI-based Problem Solving and Planning · Cognitive Computing and Networks
