ABSTRACT
The field of cognitive modeling has seen a recent push in two major areas: embodied cognition, and neurological realism. Visual System The primary function of a visual system is to identify a set of visual features as an object. The visual system needs to be able to take fine-grained detail and through special processing, recognize an object. ACT-R/S relies specifically upon three processing modules, only two of which are new to the architecture. An object’s depth or spatial extent is not typically necessary for its accurate identification. This functionality is currently available in Mike Byrne’s ACT-R/PM. The configural system is concerned with representing objects in space to facilitate navigation. It represents the world around us as spatial blobs that need to be navigated around, above, or below. The discovery of “place-cells” in the rat hippocampus has been viewed as the definitive location of cognitive-maps in the brain.
