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Hey robg, are you familiar with the general landscape of cognitive modeling/simulation implementations? Although Emergent claims to help creating models of cog
by whacked_new 18y ago
Hey robg, are you familiar with the general landscape of cognitive modeling/simulation implementations?
Although Emergent claims to help creating models of cognitive processes, it still seems like one of the "low-level" NN libraries (evidently, it is listed alongside FANN and Matlab NNT). I have very superficial exposure to this stuff, but they seem quite a bit removed from creating complex simulations, unless you already have a detailed, theoretical model of particular cognitive processes, which would probably also be isolated models.
On the other hand there's ACT-R and SOAR, which seem to fit the description better. Or am I mistaken?
By the way, for those interested, ACT-R is aimed at providing a comprehensive whole-brain simulator, and runs on common lisp-based NN.
- robg 18y agoYou're right on track (though I've barely done anything in this area). The common complaint against ACT-R was that it could never be reducible to a biological level. Since it started to introduce those NN components it's much further along in the last few years. That said, I think there's a way to come at multiple higher-level functions in one complex NN model if you respected anatomical localization of function (and perhaps quasi-modularity). Randy O'Reilly (http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/ http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/), part of the lead group that put this package together, has done some great work along these lines.