Cognitive Architecture
Noun · AI & Machine Learning
Definitions
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."