A cognitive architecture with incremental levels of machine consciousness inspired by cognitive neuroscience

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 335-352

  Raizer, Klaus ^a   Paraense, André L O ^a   Gudwin, Ricardo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

action selection; artificial consciousness; cognitive architecture; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ACTION SELECTION; ANIMAL BRAIN; ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS; ARTIFICIAL CREATURE; BRAIN THEORY; COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HUMANOID ROBOT; MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; ROAD-MAPS; STANDARD GUIDELINES;

NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 84872701648     PISSN: 17938430     EISSN: 17938473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843012400197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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