Cognitive Architecture

Noun · AI & Machine Learning

Definitions

  1. A high-level design intended to model or support aspects of cognition such as memory, planning, perception, and decision-making in a unified system. The term appears in both cognitive science and AI when discussing how intelligent behavior might be organized.

    In plain English: An overall design for how an intelligent system organizes thinking-like functions.

    Example: "The research system experimented with a cognitive architecture that separated working memory, long-term retrieval, and planning modules."

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