Neurosymbolic systems of perception and cognition: the role of attention
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Neurosymbolic Systems of Perception and Cognition: The Role of Attention
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Year: 2022
Venue: Frontiers in Psychology, 13:806397
Links: paper (PDF)
Summary
Argues that a cognitive architecture for cumulative learning must provide the information and control structures that let agents learn incrementally and autonomously, continuously relating sensory information to their goals across a perception–cognition stack. It examines the role of attention in managing this process across levels of abstraction, drawing on dual-process (System-1 / System-2) framings for neurosymbolic perception and cognition.
Relevance to Hyperon
An attention-centric neurosymbolic source for the ECAN Deep Dive — it treats attention as the control mechanism relating perception to goals in a resource-bounded cognitive architecture, complementing ECAN's economic attention-allocation account. (NARS/ONA-adjacent; authors include Pei Wang and Patrick Hammer.)