LTM C — An Improved Long-Term Memory for Cognitive Architectures

As Newell (1990) has argued, every cognitive architecture should include a knowledge base modeling human long-term memory (LTM). A critical analysis of current architectures, however, reveals that none of these seems to implement such an LTM component in a completely satisfactory manner. Based on the problems with existing approaches identified by this analysis, a new LTM component has been developed and fully implemented. This new LTM is able to model a wide range of memory effects and to resolve the problems identified with existing approaches.

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