Cognitive architectures can be symbolic, connectionist, or hybrid. Some cognitive architecures or models base on a set of generic rules, as, e.g., the Information Processing Language (such as e.g. SOAR based on the unified theory of cognition, or similarly ACT). Many of these architectures base on a the-mind-is-like-a-computer analogy. In contrast subsymbolic processing specifies no such rules a priori and relies on emergent properties of processing units (e.g. nodes). A further distinction is whether the architecture is centralized with a n ...
Common to cognitive architecture is the belief that understanding (human) cognitive processing means being able to implement them on a computational level. Cognitive architectures can be characterized by certain properties or goals that are as follows:
Implementation of not just various different aspects of cognitive behavior but of cognition as a whole (Holism, e.g. Unified theory of cognition). This is in contrast to cognitive models.
The architecture often tries to reproduce the behavior of the modelled system (human ...
