Attention Focusing Model for Nexting Based on Learning and Reasoning

  • Authors:
  • Akshay Vashist;Shoshana Loeb

  • Affiliations:
  • Telcordia Technologies, One Telcordia Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854, Email: {vashist, shoshi}@research.telcordia.com;Telcordia Technologies, One Telcordia Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854, Email: {vashist, shoshi}@research.telcordia.com

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2010: Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the BICA Society
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Intelligence can be argued to result from a complex interplay of learning, reasoning, memory, and other higher level functions, however, the survivability of biological systems ultimately depends on timely actions which are a manifestation of these higher level processes. For cognitive systems to succeed anticipating what would come next (i.e., being “one step ahead”) and deriving when to act and how to prioritize actions is as critical, and mostly likely, integrated with, the higher level sense-making processes. In this paper, we propose a biologically motivated model of execution control, called Nexting, which is founded in current understanding of such processes in biological systems.