Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The conditions and mechanisms for producing general intelligent action in agents are the focus of intensive study of cognitive science.Many positions have been proposed, including symbolic and connectionist viewpoints.New points of view are beginning to emerge, such as embodied and dynamical cognition, but have not yet been fully solidified into a single comprehensive position.In this article we present one such new viewpoint that emphasizes the importance of nonconvergent dynamics to the production of general intelligent behavior.This approach represents a fourth generation of connectionist thought, and is informed from new results in neuroscience and computational neurodynamics.We formulate the necessary and sufficient conditions for the production of intelligent behavior in this approach to cognition and introduce one such model capable of meeting these conditions.
Authors: Derek Harter, Róbert Kozma
Institutions: East Texas A&M University, University of Memphis
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W147089759