Beyond Cognition: Modeling Emotion in Cognitive Architectures

Recent research in psychology and neuroscience has identified both the critical role of emotion in decision-making and social interaction, and some of the mechanisms mediating the functioning of emotion. Yet the majority of cognitive architectures do not include models of emotion. In this paper I first motivate the need for including emotion in cognitive architectures, and then describe a generic methodology for modeling the effects of emotion within a symbolic cognitive architecture, as well as some of the associated representational requirements. I then present preliminary results, and conclude with an outline of key issues and future work in emotion modeling.

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