Cognitive agents

In this chapter, we shall review the development of cognitive agents in this light. We shall proceed in two directions. Agents with different cognitive capabilities can be endowed with either the same learning algorithms, associated with different parameters (Section 19.2.1), or with totally different learning algorithms (Section 18.5). Either way, it seems that there exists a connection between cognitive psychology and these learning algorithms, such that the latter can be placed in a cognitive hierarchy well structured by the former (the rest of this chapter).